BAIKONUR (AFP) – A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three crew on board successfully docked at the International Space Station Saturday after blasting off from Kazakhstan, NASA said, launching a year-long mission on the orbiting outpost.The Soyuz-TMA16M spacecrafts crew included a US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut who will be the first to spend an entire year on the ISS.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.The hatch opened about two hours later at 0333 GMT, once the pressure …read more
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