Astronauts get the all clear to blast off
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April 2, 2010, Friday
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A NASA astronaut and two Russian colleagues received the thumbs-up yesterday for a mission that will boost the population of the International Space Station to six.
California native Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko are to blast off at 04:04GMT today from the Russian-leased Baikonur space center in southern Kazakhstan and will reach the orbiting science lab on Sunday.
The astronauts are due to stay on board the space station until mid-September, leaving the lab just as the Shuttle Discovery sets off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the last-ever shuttle flight.
Caldwell Dyson yesterday spoke of her sadness at seeing the end of the venerable US spacecraft, which has been ferrying astronauts into space since the early 1980s.
"It's bitter, because we're saying goodbye to such a tremendous part of our space program," she said. "We've spent more time in that shuttle than we have in any vehicle and it has blessed (us) with a space station today and many experienced astronauts."
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