NASA astronaut and Timonium native Reid Wiseman is headed into space Wednesday. Wiseman, with Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev and German astronaut Alexander Gerst, were scheduled to launch at 3:57 p.m. from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome - shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday in local time. Six hours later, they are expected to dock with the International Space Station.
Entities 0 Name: Alexander Gerst Count: 1 1 Name: Maxim Suraev Count: 1 2 Name: Reid Wiseman Count: 1 3 Name: Timonium Count: 1 4 Name: NASA Count: 1 5 Name: Russian Count: 1 6 Name: Wiseman Count: 1 7 Name: Kazakhstan Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/1oJmeSI Title: New Space Station Crew Will Launch Today: How to Watch Live Description: A Russian Soyuz Rocket and TMA-13M spacecraft are raised atop a launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to launch the new Expedition 40/41 crew of the International Space Station on May 28, 2014.Credit: ESA-S Corvaja Three new crewmembers are set to launch on a quick trip to the International Space Station, and you can watch them blast off live online today (May 28).
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