Next space station trio counting down to blastoff

Three new flight engineers to return the International Space Station's resident crew to the full 6-person size traveled from their Russian training base outside Moscow to the Kazakhstan launch site Thursday. NASA's Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers made their trip from Star City to the Baikonur Cosmodrome to begin final preparations for liftoff aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M capsule on Dec. 21. More

(Source: Space Flight Now - Dec 10)