6 men and 9 months in Space

Three-nation crew blasted off for space station on Wednesday December 19 to live in space for another five months. They will take part in a series of experiments, and in docking and unloading six spacecrafts -- four Russian Progress cargo spacecrafts, Europe's ATV-4 space freighter and US SpX-2 spacecraft.

Tom Marshburn of NASA, Roman Romanenko of Russia and Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) went on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station, a hundred billion dollar research station set up by the joint effort of fifteen nations.
Oleg Novitsky, Yevgeny Tarelkin (Russia) and Kevin Ford (USA) have been manning the ISS since October.
The Soyuz rocket launched the Soyuz TMA-07M Space craft carrying the three men from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on December 19.

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The Soyuz rocket and Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft are assembled at Building 112 on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The rocket launched on December 19 sent Expedition 34/35 Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor... more
The Soyuz rocket and Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft are assembled at Building 112 on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The rocket launched on December 19 sent Expedition 34/35 Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov) less