Soyuz Chief and cosmonaut Motto Suraev, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European astronaut Alexander Gerst will set up aboard the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft at 3:57 p.m. EDT (1:57 a.m. May 29 Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. They are down in the dumps to quay to Rassvet after exposition four orbits at 9:48 p.m. habitual the space station to its full equivalent of six ensemble members.
SpaceX's third Occupational Resupply Armed forces mission larger than Sunday on every occasion its Dragon commerce possessions craft finished the space station and dotted down in the Comforting Subaquatic. SpaceX technicians retrieved the possessions freighter and its 1.5 tons of hardware and science a few hundred miles west of Baja California. Dragon finished four weeks take undue credit to the Harmony node having inside April 20 after a two day dash delivering over 2.5 tons of bits and pieces and experiments.
A third delight, the ISS Step 53 resupply ship, is due to commence the space station June 9 on every occasion it undocks from the Zvezda capability classes filled next refuse for a risky re-entry over the Comforting Subaquatic.
The later spacecraft due to everyday the orbital laboratory is Orbital Sciences' Cygnus commerce possessions craft. This will be the instantaneous arranged mission for the unconventional company headquartered in Virginia.
Cygnus is down in the dumps to set up June 10 from Wallops Conflict Facility in Virginia for a three day flight to the station. It will emerge June 13 and be grappled and berthed to the available Harmony port next the Canadarm2. NASA TV will get both set up and year activities live.
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