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Three space fliers have just embarked on a two-day journey to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA’s Serena Auñón-Chancellor, cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst launched aboard a Russian Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft today (June 6) from Baikonur Cosmodrome here in this Central Asian nation. The Soyuz rocket carrying their spacecraft lifted off at 7:12 a.m. EDT (1112 GMT; 5:12 p.m. local Kazakhstan time.) If all goes according to plan, the trio will reach the ISS Friday morning (June 8). Their arrival will bring the orbiting lab up to its full complement of six crewmembers. Currently, the ISS is home to NASA astronauts Drew Feustel (who is commanding the current mission, which is called Expedition 56) and Ricky Arnold, as well as Oleg Artemyev, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. For this occasion with Italian Astronauts Award we offer with only one contact the special DQSL. Contact with IQ6KX in SSB on June 6 and 7 and you’ll receive this little Award. Look at the cluster. For all days of this week search for us (IQ6KX) in digital way specially in FT8…
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