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Soyuz TMA-07M to bring new resident crew to ISS Dec 21

The ship is scheduled to dock with the ISS automatically at 08:12 Moscow time

MOSCOW, December 21 (Itar-Tass) —— The spaceship Soyuz TMA-07M will take a new resident crew to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, December 21.

The ship, which blasted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on December 19, is carrying a crew of Roman Romanenko of Russia, Chris Hadfield of Canada and Thomas Marshburn of the United States.

The ship is scheduled to dock with the ISS automatically at 08:12 Moscow time.

The new crew will be welcomed aboard the ISS by Oleg Novitsky, Yevgeny Tarelkin and Kevin Ford of NASA, who will work with them until March.