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>> A trio of crew
members who will remain

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on board the International
Space Station Oleg Novitskiy,

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in the red shirt; Evgeny
Tarelkin, in the foreground;

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and you'll be seeing
floating in the field of you,

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the new Expedition 34
Commander Kevin Ford.

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Expedition 34 begins
officially at the time

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of physical separation
of the Soyuz vehicle,

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about 15 minutes from now.

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The trio lined up at the
hatchway in Rassvet module

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of the International Space
Station, as one by one, Hoshide,

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Williams and finally Malenchenko
said their final farewells,

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hugs, handshakes, as the trio

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of departing crewmembers
made their way

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through the small
passageway, connecting Rossvet

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with the Soyuz's TMA-05M
spacecraft before the hatches

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were finally closed, the
crewmembers saying goodbye

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to one another for
the final time.

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On Saturday, it was Williams
who handed over command

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of the International
Space Station to Ford

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who will remain Expedition
34 Commander until mid-March,

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when Ford, Novitskiy
and Tarelkin come home

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after five months in space.

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Ford, at that time,
will hand over command

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of the International
Space Station

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to Canadian Space Agency
Astronaut Chris Hadfield

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who will become the
first Canadian

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to command the International
Space Station.

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Hadfield is scheduled for launch

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with NASA Astronaut
Tom Marshburn

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and Russian Cosmonaut Roman
Romanenko on December 19

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from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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[ Inaudible ]

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>> For page 94 work
prep have you performed?

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That and are you prepared for
launching the undocking mode?

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Yes, we confirm at
the zero 11700,

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we will be ready
[inaudible] command.

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>> And you can hear the Russian
flight controllers talking

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as we speak to Yuri Malenchenko,
calling him under the call sign

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of [inaudible], making sure
that everything is ready

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for the actual command
that will be sent

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at 4:23 p.m. Central Time
to initiate the opening

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of the hooks that have
held the Soyuz's spacecraft