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Soyuz spacecraft with Russian, US astronauts docks at ISS


Baikonur (Kazakhstan) (AFP) – A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three crew on board successfully docked with the International Space Station after blasting off from Kazakhstan, NASA said.The Soyuz-TMA16M spacecraft’s crew included a US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut who will be the first to spend an entire year on the orbiting outpost.The successful docking occurred after the Soyuz took off without a glitch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 22:42 pm (1942 GMT) Friday, Russian space agency officials said earlier.NASA flight engineer Scott Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko will together spend a total of 342 days aboard the ISS, …read more

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