Three new Expedition 31 crewmembers are set for arrival at the International Space Station early on Thursday morning. Gennady Padalka, Joe Acaba and Sergei Revin launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday morning and have since been closing in on the ISS with their Soyuz TMA-04 spacecraft.

You can track the Soyuz TMA-04 as it approaches the ISS using https://www.n2yo.com.

The resident ISS crew, André Kuipers, Don Pettit and Oleg Kononenko, has had a shorter workday today in preparation for an early start tomorrow morning when they will welcome the new arrivals on board.

Docking is scheduled for 06:39 CEST (04:39 UT). Watch the docking live on NASA TV from 06:00 CEST (04:00 UT). Ingress of the new crewmembers occurs some 90 minutes later and will also be shown live on NASA TV from 09:45 CEST (07:45 UT).



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