Next ISS Crew Trains for Upcoming Launch to the Station04:33

The International Space Station’s Expedition 49-50 crew, including NASA’s Shane Kimbrough is conducting crew qualification training in Star City, Russia, in preparation for the crew’s upcoming launch to the station. Kimbrough and his crewmates, cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Sergey Ryzhikov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft at 2:17 p.m. Sept. 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. At the space station, they will join Expedition 49 members, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi. Together, the six crew members will continue the several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science currently under way and scheduled to take place aboard humanity’s only orbiting lab.