Station Crew Awaits New Members, Continues Maintenance and Science

The three-member Expedition 24 crew awaits its new crewmates who are due to launch to the International Space Station on June 15.

Onboard the station now are Commander Alexander Skvortsov and Flight Engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko. They will be joined by Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Shannon Walker when they dock June 17 in the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft.



The new crew members will replace the Expedition 23 crew members who undocked from the or [...]

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