Volare mission

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and crewmates Fyodor Yurchikhin and Karen Nyberg were launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:31:24 GMT on 28 May 2013 (22:31:24 CEST 28 May; 02:31:24 local time 29 May) on their mission to the International Space Station.

They reached orbit nine minutes later and are scheduled to dock with the orbital outpost at 02:17 GMT (04:17 CEST) on 29 May.

Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.