Second Half Of Expedition 27 Launches To Space Station
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The International Space Station will receive three additional residents later this week, bringing the orbiting laboratory's total crew size to six.
A Soyuz TMA-21 carrying Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev along with NASA astronaut Ron Garan lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 3:18 p.m. PDT on Monday (4:18 a.m. local time, Tuesday). They are expected to arrive at the station on Wednesday and stay until September. The trio will join the other half of Expedition 27-- Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman-- who has been aboard the station since last December and are scheduled to depart in May.
Early next month the station is expected to welcome shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 crew,whose flight launch date has been tentatively changed from April 19 to 29 due to a scheduling conflict, NASA said on Monday.
