Soyuz, with crew of three, set for launch to space station

Four days after a Soyuz ferry craft brought three space station fliers down to a frigid landing in Kazakhstan, three fresh crew members are poised for launch early Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to boost the lab's crew back to six. Soyuz TMA-19M commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA flight engineer and co-pilot Timothy Kopra and European Space Agency astronaut Timothy Peake are set to blast off from Baikonur at 6:03 a.m. on Dec. 15 (5:03 p.m. local time in Kazakhstan). More

(Source: CBS News - Dec 15)