September 26, 2013

Michael Hopkins, Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy in front of the Soyuz rocket used for the launch (Photo NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

A few hours ago the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and after less than six hours reached the International Space Station with three new crew members on board. The Soyuz has used the fast trajectory successfully tested in the recent past.

The three new members of the crew of the International Space Station, who complete the crew of Expedition 37, are astronaut Michael Hopkins and cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy.