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The three members of the Expedition 33/34 crew, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitski, talk about their upcoming mission to the International Space Station at a news briefing held July 26 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The trio is scheduled to launch to the orbiting laboratory in September.

After spending two days getting to the the International Space Station after launching Sunday morning from Kazakhstan, the three member crew in the Soyuz spacecraft docked and entered the International Space Station this morning. The crew of Expedition 32 includes NASA astronaut Suni Williams, Aki Hoshide of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko who join Russian Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin and NASA astronaut Joseph M. Acaba already in orbit.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 32/33 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA Flight Engineer Suni Williams and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency participated in a variety of activities in preparation for their launch to the International Space Station Saturday night.