BAIKONUR. June 6 (Interfax) - A new expedition has been sent to the International Space Station on board a Russian Soyuz-FG vehicle carrying the Soyuz MS-09 manned spacecraft from launch pad 1 (Gagarin's Start) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, an Interfax correspondent reported.
The crew is led by Roscosmos Cosmonaut Sergei Prokopiev and includes also NASA Astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor and ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst.
The spacecraft is to dock with the ISS in about two days, using a conventional docking trajectory.