ISS Expedition 36 Crew Launch

The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 36 crew has launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:31 PM EDT. They are flying aboard a Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft on an "accelerated" six hour mission to the ISS.

International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 36 Crew
Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano

The Expedition 36 crew is scheduled to dock their Soyuz spacecraft to the space station’s Rassvet module at 10:16 p.m. EDT.