Crew Members Welcomed Aboard Station

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New Expedition 34 Crew Members Welcomed Aboard Station

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Expedition 34 Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn, Roman Romanenko and Chris Hadfield docked their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module at 9:09 a.m. EST on Friday after spending two days in orbit.

The hatches between the Soyuz and the Rassvet module were opened at 11:37 a.m. and Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin welcomed their new crewmates aboard. The six-member crew will take part in a welcome ceremony with family members and mission officials then participate in a safety briefing.

› Watch the docking and hatch opening

Marshburn, Romanenko and Hadfield launched at 7:12 a.m. Wednesday (6:12 p.m. Baikonur time) from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

› Watch the launch video

› Watch the crew's launch day preparations

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Expedition 34 will be a six-member crew until March 2013 when Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin undock from the Poisk module and return home inside the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft for a landing in Kazakhstan. When they undock Expedition 35 will officially begin as Hadfield becomes commander staying behind with Marshburn and Romanenko before finally returning home in May 2013.

Hadfield last visited the station in April 2001 aboard space shuttle Endeavour as an STS-100 mission specialist. He helped install the Canadarm2, the station’s robotic arm, during two spacewalks. Hadfield will be Canada’s first station commander when Expedition 35 begins.

Marshburn went to the station in July 2009 aboard shuttle Endeavour for the STS-127 mission. He performed three spacewalks to help complete the construction of the Japanese Kibo laboratory module.

Romanenko served as a flight engineer for Expedition 20/21 for six months in 2009.

› Read more about Expedition 34

› Watch the Expedition 34 crew profile

› Send a holiday postcard to the station crew

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Expedition 34 Welcomes New Trio

The Soyuz TMA-07M carrying new Expedition 34 crew members Chris Hadfield, Roman ROmanenko and Tom Marshburn docked to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module at 9:09 a.m. EST on Friday. The hatches between the Soyuz and the Rassvet module were opened at 11:37 a.m. and Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin welcomed their new crewmates aboard.

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[Dredimus]

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[freetoroam]

its absolutely mind blowing.

I wish now I had never smoked and had passed my maths exam with an A+.

It really does take a pretty super person to have the guts to go up there, I know they get the training, but mentally they are way ahead of the likes of most people on Earth.

But must say what a team, all those who make it possible and to all those who go into space.

I would love to do what they do, but mentally I really do not think, actually I know I could not cope.

Which just shows that it would have to be a very selective process if we were ever in a position of having to leave this planet in spaceships to another "world".......sorry, rambling a bit, but i just admire these people who can.