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houston station on space to ground

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welcome to space to ground your weekly

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look at what's happening on board the

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international space station i'm dan

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hewitt it's a launch week and like

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always it started off with a bang

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the newest soyuz spacecraft lifted off

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from baikonur kazakhstan carrying

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russian cosmonauts sergei volkov danish

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astronaut andreas mogensen and kazakh

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cosmonaut iden ambatov into orbit the

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three blasted off on september 2nd from

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launch pad number one this was the 500th

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rocket to lift off from the place where

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yuri gagarin started it all after a

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quick nine minute ride uphill the soyuz

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was in space and ready to chase down the

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station and it caught up two days later

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on september 4th after completing 34

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orbits of the earth

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the trio docked to the station's poisk

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module and were welcomed aboard by the

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current expedition 44 crew bringing the

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station's total population to 9 for the

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first time since 2013.

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volkov is aboard for the long haul

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returning home in march of next year

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with the one-year crew members mogensen

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and ibatov have a shorter stay returning

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on september 11th with gennady padalka

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and in an interesting coincidence sergey

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volkov is finding the launch of his

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third mission is a lot like his father's

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his dad is former cosmonaut alexander

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volkov who launched on his third mission

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also with the kozak cosmonaut almost

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exactly 24 years ago the older volkov

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spent time on previous russian space

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stations salyut 7 and mir which helped

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pave the way for the one we fly today

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and make sure to keep sending your