Highlights of launch preparations to liftoff and weightlessness. ESA<br />astronaut Luca Parmitano, Russian Soyuz commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA<br />astronaut Karen Nyberg lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 28 May 2013.<br />All three will be part of the Station's Expedition 36/37 crew.<br />Luca's mission is named 'Volare' -- 'to fly' in Italian -- to symbolise the search for new frontiers and opportunities for discovery.<br />The spacecraft lifted off from Baikonur spaceport at 20:31:24 GMT and reached orbit nine minutes later. In under six hours while orbiting Earth four times<br />the Soyuz docked with the Rassvet module on the International Space Station.
