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| Pictured on the front row are Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield (right) and Flight Engineer Pavel Vinogradov. On the back row, from left, are Flight Engineers Alexander Misurkin, Chris Cassidy, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn. Photo credit: NASA |
Chris Hadfield was Flight Engineer in Expedition 34 and In Expedition 35 he is leading ISS as Commander.This is his third space flight of Chris Hadfield. Soyuz TMA-08M is planned to launch on March 28, 2013 and reach ISS & return on September 2013. Expedition 35 will also be only the second time an ISS crew is led by neither a NASA astronaut, nor a Roscosmos cosmonaut, after Expedition 21 in 2009, when ESA astronaut Frank de Winne was in command.
The previous Expedition 34 crew (Commander Kevin Ford of NASA, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Russian Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin ) is going to undock their Soyuz Spacecraft from ISS at 8:30 PM EDT, March 14. Landing in Kazakhstan northeast of the remote town of Arkalyk at 11:57 p.m.
You can see live coverage of Expedition 34 landing at NASA TV. www.nasa.gov/ntv/
Info about Soyuz TMA-07M and Soyuz TMA-08M
Soyuz TMA-07M
Crew: Chris Hadfield, Tom Marshburn, Roman Romanenko
Launch:
› Dec. 19, 2012, 7:12 a.m. EST
Landing: May 2013
Soyuz TMA-08M
Crew: Chris Cassidy, Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin
Launch: March 28, 2013
Landing: September 2013
Crew: Chris Hadfield, Tom Marshburn, Roman Romanenko
Launch:
› Dec. 19, 2012, 7:12 a.m. EST
Landing: May 2013
Soyuz TMA-08M
Crew: Chris Cassidy, Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin
Launch: March 28, 2013
Landing: September 2013