News Conference Features with Next Space Station Crew
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NASA news conference was held Jan. 7 at Johnson Space Center in Houston with the next crew launching to the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Jeff Williams. Joining him for Expedition 47 and 48 will be cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos (Russian Federal Space Agency). The trio will launch to the space station aboard a Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft March 18, 2016, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This will be the third long-duration stay on the space station for Williams, who will serve as the commander of Expedition 48.
