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Three astronauts have blasted off for the International Space Station, where they are set to raise the outpost's crew to six for the first time.
Belgian Frank De Winne, Canadian Robert Thirsk and Russian Roman Romanenko launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 1134 BST.

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ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is heading to the International Space Station at the start of his six-month OasISS mission. Together with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, De Winne launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 12:34 CEST (10:34 UT) today.
Their Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) at 14:36 CEST (12:36 UT) on Friday 29 May. The arrival of De Winne, Romanenko and Thirsk at the ISS will mark the first ever six-member ISS crew, as they join the three Expedition crewmembers already in residence on the Station: Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, NASA astronaut Michael Barratt and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.

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Three astronauts are set to launch to the International Space Station where they will raise the outpost's crew from three to six for the first time.
Belgian Frank De Winne, Canadian Robert Thirsk and Russian Roman Romanenko are due to blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 1134 BST.

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The Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft is still on schedule to liftoff from launch pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, on a mission to ferry the 3 person expedition 20 crew and resupply the ISS.
Launch will be at 10:34:49 GMT.

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Watch the OasISS mission launch live
ESA astronaut Frank De Winne starts his six-month OasISS mission to the International Space Station with the launch of the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft on Wednesday 27 May at 12:34 CEST (10:34 UT).

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The Soyuz spaceship and its carrier rocket have been installed on the launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome. Despite a delay due to strong winds, the installation was completed at 4.30 p.m Moscow time.

"The delay of the installation because of meteorological conditions should not affect the time of the launch, which is still set for 2.34 p.m Moscow time, May 27" - spokesperson for Roskosmos.

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Cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk and European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan May 27 at 3:34 a.m. PDT. Docking is set for 5:36 a.m. May 29, inaugurating the long-awaited presence of a six-person crew. It also will mark the moment when all five partner agencies are represented by crew members on the orbiting laboratory and will begin Expedition 20, still under the command of Expedition 19 Commander Gennady Padalka.

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The head of the European Space Agency in Moscow, Rene Pischel told RT he doesn't see the wind delay as a major setback to the Soyuz launch.


A Russian Soyuz rocket is still on schedule to launch the manned Soyuz TMA spacecraft with members of the Expedition 20 crew from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at  10:34 GMT, 27th May, 2009.

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NASA Television will provide live coverage as the next residents of the International Space Station launch and arrive at the station to expand its crew to six people. Coverage begins May 15 when the crew members leave Star City, Russia, en route to the launch site in Kazakhstan.
On May 27, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Bob Thirsk will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:34 a.m. CDT (4:34 p.m. Baikonur time).

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Next week, European astronaut Frank De Winne will leave Russia's cosmonaut training centre outside of Moscow and fly to neighbouring Kazakhstan, where a Soyuz rocket is being prepared to carry him and two crewmates to the International Space Station.
They will be the 20th crew to staff the station, but this time the current residents aren't coming right home.

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