Soyuz to the Launch Pad

Soyuz to the Launch Pad

05/26/2013 12:00 AM EDT

The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad, Sunday, May 26, 2013, in Kazakhstan.

Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, are set to launch to the International Space Station Tuesday night Eastern U.S. time, Wednesday in Kazakh time.

Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.  

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls