April 7, 2007

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602

John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-4934

STATUS REPORT: SS07-18

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-18

HOUSTON - Two Russian cosmonauts and a space flight participant launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:31 p m CDT Saturday for a two-day flight to the International Space Station

Less than 10 minutes after launch their spacecraft reached orbit and its antennas and solar arrays deployed The Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft is scheduled to dock at the station at a little after 3 p m Monday

Once they arrive at the station, Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 15 commander, and Oleg Kotov, Expedition 15 flight engineer, and spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi, a U S businessman, will be greeted by the station's current crew, Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and flight engineers Mikhail Tyurin and Suni Williams

Simonyi, flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency, will return to Earth on April 20 with Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin, who have been aboard the station since September 2006

Flight Engineer Suni Williams, who has served as an Expedition 14 crew member since December, will remain on the station joining the Expedition 15 crew She is scheduled to return home aboard space shuttle Endeavour this summer

Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station, future launch dates, as well as station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, is available on the Internet at:

http://www nasa gov/station

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