Luca Parmitano
Rollout of the Soyuz launcher
The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad, 26 May 2013. The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) with Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers; Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Karen Nyberg of NASA, is scheduled for Wednesday 29 May, Kazakh time. Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Rollout of the Soyuz launcher
The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad, 26 May 2013. The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) with Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers; Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Karen Nyberg of NASA, is scheduled for Wednesday 29 May, Kazakh time. Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls