BAIKONUR: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three crew on board successfully docked with the International Space Station on Friday 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 22:42pm (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, while the …read more
Source: theSun
