Next space station crew set for Friday launch, docking

With Scott Kelly back on Earth after a record-setting voyage, his NASA backup, three-flight veteran Jeffrey Williams, is poised for launch from Kazakhstan Friday to kick off a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-20M/46S spacecraft, with rookie commander Alexey Ovchinin at the controls, flanked on the right by Williams and on the left by flight engineer Oleg Skripochka, is set for liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 5:26:39 p.m. EDT (GMT-5; 3:26 a.m. Saturday local time). That's roughly the moment Earth's rotation carries the launch pad into the plane of the space station's orbit, which is required for the Soyuz to catch up with the outpost. More

(Source: CBS News - Mar 18)