Dragon's Back on This Week @NASA

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Expedition 31 Crew Arrive in Baikonur Ahead of Launch

The Expedition 31 crew - astronaut Joe Acaba and cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin -- trains at Star City, Russia, for its upcoming launch to the International Space Station. Their backup crew members -- astronaut Kevin Ford and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin -- also participate.

Expedition 31 crew members Gennady Padalka, Joe Acaba and Sergei Revin were welcomed aboard the International Space Station after the hatches opened Thursday at 4:10 a.m. EDT. They docked to the Poisk module at 12:36 a.m. after a two day journey that began in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft.