Three new Expedition 30 crew members are scheduled to dock to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station at 10:22 a.m. EST Friday.
Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko, Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers will join Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin when the hatches open a little over three hours later.
The new trio launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft Wednesday from Kazakhstan.
Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank speaks with reporters.
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