Expedition 23 Preparing for New Crew Members, Shuttle Visitors

(NASA) - The three-member Expedition 23 crew will expand to six on April 4 when Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov, Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko dock to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft. On April 7, space shuttle Discovery with the seven-member STS-131 crew will visit the orbiting laboratory and deliver science racks and ammonia tanks.

Onboard the station, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, both flight engineers, c [...]

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