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Next Space Station Crew, Expedition 61, Launches to the International Space Station Description: Three new crew members are on their way to the International Space Station. Expedition 61 Soyuz Commander Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Meir and Spaceflight Participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates launched on the Russian Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft on September 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a six-hour journey to the International Space Station and the start of their mission on the outpost. The footage contains the crew’s prelaunch activities that included their departure from their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters, their suit-up in the Cosmodrome’s Integration Facility, walk out to their crew bus and arrival at the launch pad to board their spacecraft.