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Russia"s Federal Space Agency gave final...

Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and U.S. astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson are scheduled to take off from the Baikonur space center at 08:04 Moscow time (04:04 GMT) on Friday.

Their reserves - Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutayev, Andrei Borisenko and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly - will remain on the ground.

The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft will dock with the ISS on Sunday, where the crew will join Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.

BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan), April 1 (RIA Novosti)




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