Assignments

NASA and its partners in the International Space Station (ISS) named on Thursday the crew of Soyuz TMA-08M, who will join the Expedition 34 crew in December 2012 and then, after three months, become the first three members of the Expedition 35 crew. NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, the Canadian Space Agency's Chris Hadfield and cosmonaut Roman Romanenko will be ISS flight engineers until March 2013, when the handover will establish Hadfield as the first Canadian commander of the ISS. The three are scheduled to land in June 2013.