TORONTO – Three more astronauts are preparing to launch to the International Space Station on Wednesday.
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday at 5:02 p.m. EDT.
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The three will join the one-year crew, American Scott Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko as well as Russian commander Gennady Padalka as part of Expedition 44.
Last week the crew members were forced to take precautions due to the threat of space debris — the leftover debris from an old weather satellite — coming into contact with the space station.
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