Watch Live as The New Crew of Expedition 39 Launches to the International Space Station at 4:15PM EDT

The new crew of the ISS Expedition 39 will launch to the space station today, and you can watch it right here with live coverage beginning at 4:14PM EDT. New Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov, Steve Swanson, and Oleg Artemyev will launch today on the Soyuz TMA-12M. They’ll join Richard Mastracchio, Koichi Wakata, Mikhail Tyurin, who launched Expedition 39 with the Soyuz TMA-11M back in November.

The launch itself will begin at 5:17PM EDT, and they’re scheduled to dock with the ISS at 10:30PM.

(via NASA)

Meanwhile in related links

• Wakata talked to Japan’s space robot, and it was adorable
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