<span style="color: #222222;">Three space travellers, including two astronauts on their first flight, are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) tomorrow for a six-and-a-half month mission. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">NASA said, the launch comes less than two months after a booster failure forced a Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague to make an emergency landing.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The incident became the first failure of a manned space launch in modern Russian history. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The three new space travellers — Anne McClain of NASA, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of Russian space agency Roscosmos are preparing to launch aboard the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft at 5.31 p.m. from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It will be the first flight for both McClain and Saint-Jacques and the fourth for Kononenko.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Kononenko, McClain and Saint-Jacques will officially become the Expedition 58 crew when Gerst, Aunon-Chancellor and Prokopyev depart the station for home on December 20.</span>