NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency will launch to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Nov. 6, and dock on Nov. 7. Three current space station crew members prepared for their arrival by relocating a Soyuz on Friday Nov. 1, undocking from a module on the Earth-facing side of the space station and flying around to the other side.
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