Russia's Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft docks with ISS module two days after launch

KOROLEV. KAZINFORM - Russia's Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft carrying three crew members has docked with the International Space Station's (ISS) Poisk module two days after its launch, the Russian Mission Control Center said Friday, Sputnik reports.

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Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko, along with US Astronaut Shane Kimbrough, took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz-FG rocket on Wednesday.

Other remaining launches in 2016 include the Soyuz MS-03 manned spacecraft launch on November 16 and the Progress MS-04 space freighter launch on December 1.


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Source: Sputnik