ISS Expedition 55-56 Crew Launches to the International Space Station

Expedition 55-56 Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of NASA launched on the Russian Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft on Mar. 21 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a two-day journey to the International Space Station and the start of a five-month mission on the outpost. The footage also contains the crew's pre-launch activities including their departure from their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters, their suit-up in the Cosmodrome's Integration Facility, walk out to their crew bus and arrival at the launch pad to board their spacecraft.