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Russian rocket ready for flight to station

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Published: June 4, 2011 at 1:55 PM
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, June 4 (UPI) -- A rocket was assembled Saturday for next week's trip to the International Space Station, Russian space officials said.

The Soyuz-FG rocket is to send a Soyuz TMA-02M craft into orbit Wednesday. Docking with the space station is set for Friday, RIA Novosti reported from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

The mission will take flight engineers Mike Fossum, Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa up to join station commander Andrey Borisenko and flight engineers Alexander Samokutyaev and Ron Garan.

Topics: Satoshi Furukawa, Sergei Volkov
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