With New Launch, Space Station Becomes Truly International

[mickw]

After a decade of construction, the International Space Station will finally live up to its name this week when the first six-person crew takes up residence with astronauts from five different countries.

The second half of the station's inaugural six-member crew is poised to launch Wednesday at 6:34 a.m. EDT (1034 GMT) aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. They will arrive on Friday to join the first wave of their crew already aboard the station.

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