BAIKONUR. Sept 29 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - The launch of the Soyuz-TMA spacecraft carrying Expedition 10 to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled to take place at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time (0507 GMT) on October 14, a source in the cosmodrome told Interfax on Wednesday.
Vyacheslav Davidenko, a spokesman for Roskosmos, told Interfax earlier that the launch had initially been scheduled for 8:17 a.m. Moscow time (0417 GMT) on October 11 and was rescheduled for technical reasons.
The spacecraft will take Russian astronaut Salizhan Sharipov, NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, and Russian Space Forces astronaut Yury Shargin to the ISS.
Experts with the Samara-based enterprise Progress on Tuesday assembled the first and second stages of the Soyuz-FG booster, which will be used in the launch, the Baikonur federal space center told Interfax. The booster is currently being prepared for pneumatic tests, Interfax was told.