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Earth from space 2: More images fromFrom the ISS International Space Station – Video

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This time lapse video was made from images taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and other astronauts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station.

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International Space Station Live Stream: Expedition 42 Takes Flight With 'ISSpresso' And Olaf The Snowman

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NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Roscosmos cosmonautAnton Shkaplerov and European Space Agency astronautSamantha Cristoforetti will launch to the International Space Station on Sunday. NASA will have a live stream of the launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan beginning at 3 p.m. EST, with the launch itself set for 4:01 p.m.

The three Expedition 42 crew members will join NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore and cosmonautsAlexander Samokutyaev andElena Serova, who are currently aboard the ISS. Wilmore will serve as the expedition commander. While the three astronauts on Earth prepare to launch toward the Soyuz spacecraft, the three astronauts already in space are conducting experiments involving the first 3D printer in space and plant growth in space.

For the3D Printing In Zero-G Technology Demonstration (3D Printing In Zero-G) experiment, ISS crew members are testing the feasibility of the technology in space. A 3D printer can be a versatile tool for crew members as it could manufacture spare parts and reduce the need for additional cargo to be sent during resupply missions. The Seedling-2 Growth experiment examines the growth and development of plants in microgravity. The ability to grow plants in space could be an important component of future manned missions.

The Expedition 42 launch will also include some interesting cargo. The first espresso machine built for space will keepCristoforetti, the first Italian female astronaut, and her crew mates well caffeinated. The ISSpresso machine was developed by Lavazza and Argotec: It can also make tea and broths.

Shkaplerovs daughter chose an Olaf the snowman doll, from the film Frozen, to serve as the zero-G talisman, Space.com reported. Traditionally, Soyuz commanders choose a doll or toy that will be used to determine when the astronauts are in space. When the astronauts reach orbit, Olaf will begin to float. My youngest daughter is eight years old, and she selected that as a talisman, Shkaplerov said during a press conference.

The astronauts will orbit Earth four times before docking with the space station at 9:53 p.m. EST, with NASAs coverage beginning at 9:15 p.m. The hatch between the Soyuz spacecraft and the ISS will open at 11:30 p.m.

Beginning at 3 p.m. EST, NASAs International Space Station live-stream coverage can be viewed below.

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Soyuz prepped for flight with three bound for station

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The Soyuz TMA-15M crew during a pre-flight news conference Saturday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (left to right): NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and European Space Agency flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti. NASA TV

In clear but frigid weather, Russian engineers hauled a Soyuz rocket to the launch pad Friday, setting the stage for launch Sunday on a six-hour flight to ferry a veteran Russian cosmonaut, a NASA shuttle pilot and a European rookie to the International Space Station, boosting the lab's crew back to six and kicking off a busy winter of research and assembly work.

Soyuz TMA-15M commander Anton Shkaplerov, flanked by flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti and NASA astronaut Terry Virts, are scheduled for liftoff from complex 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:01:14 p.m. EST (GMT-5; 3:01 a.m. Monday local time), roughly the moment Earth's rotation moves the pad into the plane of the station's orbit.

Soyuz flights are more commonly launched from pad 1, the same firing stand used by Yuri Gagarin at the dawn of the space age, but required maintenance prompted the Russians to use complex 31 for the TMA-15M launch, the first use of the facility for a piloted Soyuz flight since a station-bound crew took off from there in October 2012.

If all goes well, Shkaplerov and his crewmates will oversee an autonomous four-orbit rendezvous with the space station, moving in for docking at the Earth-facing Rassvet module Sunday around 9:53 p.m. Standing by to welcome them aboard will be Expedition 42 commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore, Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova, who were launched to the outpost September 25.

Wilmore and company have had the station to themselves since Nov. 9 when Maxim Suraev, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman departed and returned to Earth. With the arrival of the TMA-15M crew, the focus of station operations will shift back to a full slate of research activity and a series of spacewalks next year to prepare the lab for dockings by new commercial crew ferry craft now under development in the United States.

Serova is the first female cosmonaut assigned to a long-duration flight aboard the station. A half-dozen female NASA astronauts have lived aboard the complex during the 14 years it has been staffed, but Cristoforetti is the first woman assigned to a long-duration flight by the European Space Agency.

A veteran fighter pilot and a captain in the Italian air force, Cristoforetti's resume reads like a roadmap to orbit, with a master's degree in mechanical engineering, expertise in aerospace propulsion technology, and more than 500 hours flying time in a variety of military aircraft, including the AM-X ground-attack fighter-bomber. During a pre-flight news conference, she described herself as "somebody who looks forward to a challenge."

"Learning how to be a flight engineer on the Soyuz was extremely gratifying," she said. "It kind of brought me back a little bit to flying a new airplane, where you have to learn, get familiar with all the systems, the procedures and what you do in a nominal case, what you do if something goes wrong. I've always been trained as a single-seat aircraft pilot so it was interesting to learn how to be a three-seater where you have a crew you have to work with. A very different mindset. Fun!"

Virts served as pilot of the shuttle Endeavour during a 2010 space station assembly mission. Like Cristoforetti, he is a veteran Air Force test pilot with 45 combat missions to his credit flying F-16 fighters. But in his case, moving from the shuttle to the Soyuz meant adapting to a smaller crew -- and a smaller, more nimble spacecraft.

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