NASA will discuss the inauguration of six-person crew operations aboard the International Space Station in a briefing scheduled for 1 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, May 6, at the Johnson Space Center.

The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television. Reporters may ask questions from participating NASA sites. International news media from Canada and Europe may ask questions from their respective agencies' headquarters.

On May 27, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Bob Thirsk will launch on a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will arrive at the station on May 29 to join the station's Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Mike Barratt and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The six men will form the Expedition 20 crew, the station's first six-person crew. This mission also will be the first time crew members are aboard representing all five International Space Station partners.

i have been reading the dauly time lines from nasa and was wondering who is what so far i have the following

( Commander )CDR= Commander Gennady I. Padalka

( Flight Eng- 1)FE-1= Not sure

( Flight Eng-2 )FE-2 = Not sure

Also i looked at the timelines for May 2nd and saw "ham radio setup, Ham radio session " for 15:20-15:35 utc and that puts iss just off the west coast of USA... are they doing comm checks there for the VHF 143 mhz or just to get a little help form the ground to set the radio up in a Mode?? Just curious..

Marcus
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