English subtitles for clip: File:Expedition 46-47 scheduled for December launch.webm

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The December launch of Expedition 46/47 will feature two space veterans and one

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first time flyer to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Tim Kopra

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will serve as a flight engineer for Expedition 46. The same role the West

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Point graduate served in 2009 during Expedition 20. Tim will become the station

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commander for Expedition 47. ESA astronaut Tim Peake will also serve as

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a flight engineer. Tim is a test pilot with over 3,000 flight hours on more

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than 30 types of aircraft. He will be the first British astronaut to visit the

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space station.

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The soyuz commander will be veteran cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko. Yuri has

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spent 641 days in space and he's spent over a day working

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outside in space during five spacewalks. Yuri first flew in space in

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1994 on the MIR-16 mission. This crew will spend six months on the

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station with a scheduled landing in May of 2016.