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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 the launches kept on rolling this

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month with a new crew taking off from

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kazakhstan

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nasa astronaut tim kopra british

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astronaut tim peake and russian

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cosmonaut yuri malenchenko blasted off

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from wintery baikonur on tuesday the

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three-stage rocket took just under nine

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minutes to place the soyuz spacecraft

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into earth orbit where it successfully

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deployed its solar arrays and headed off

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towards the space station

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and it only took about six hours for the

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soyuz to chase down the orbiting lab

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the spacecraft docked successfully to

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the russian rossviet module and the crew

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threw open the hatches a few hours later

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bringing expedition 46 back up to a full

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six members this is kopra's second stay

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on board the station having previously

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served as a flight engineer for

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expedition 20. peak is on his very first

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flight into space and is both the first

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british astronaut to fly for the

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european space agency and the first

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britain to visit the international space

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station for malenchenko one of

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humanity's most veteran space fliers who

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will surpass 800 cumulative days in

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space on this mission this marks trip

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number six into space tying the russian

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record for space flights

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this week's question came from anti who

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wanted to know if the new crew members

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will be tweeting they sure will be

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nasa's tim copra can be found at astro

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underscore tim while esa's tim peake can

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be found at astro underscore tim peake

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be sure to follow along as the tim's

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share some of the most spectacular

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sights from the next six months in space

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keep sending us your questions using the