NASA's Mike Fossum, cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa are launched to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Bailkonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch came at 4:15 p.m. Eastern on June 7.
Commander Mark Kelly and his STS-134 crewmates, Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff, talk with reporters from Pittsburgh and Houston about their mission as space shuttle Endeavour remains docked to the International Space Station.
In a Change of Command Ceremony, Dimitry Kondratyev hands over the helm of the International Space Station to Andrey Borisenko as those aboard the orbiting complex transition from Expedition 27 to 28.