The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft that will carry new Expedition 30 Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko, Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers into space rolled out to the launch pad Monday at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch is scheduled for Wednesday at 8:16 a.m. EST, with NASA TV coverage beginning at 7:30 a.m. The Soyuz will dock to the International Space Station Friday morning.

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the new soyuz spacecarft will soon launch to the iss it is planned to launch on wendesday it will make six aboard the iss now and then a new year will begin. it is planned to be a busy year with the htv docking to iss atv docking to iss science work and routating crews. not to mention the dragon spacecraft is planned to have a fly by of the space station it will be a great year of science work and exploration.

Topics in this report:
1. Kobe, Japan Contact Successful
2. New Proposal Cycle for ARISS-US Contacts
3. ARISS-U.S. Proposal Process Makes the News
4. AMSAT News Service Covers ARISS
5. Amateur Radio Newsline on ARISS
6. ARISS Status on Social Media

1. Kobe, Japan Contact Successful