Russian piloted spaceship Soyuz docks with ISS
20:09, 29 May 2009
KOROLEV (Moscow region). May 29. KAZINFORM. The Russian piloted spaceship Soyuz carrying an international ISS crew of three astronauts docked with the International Space Station (ISS), spokesman for the Moscow regional Mission Control Centre Valery Lyndin told Itar-Tass on Friday; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
The rocket Soyuz TMA-15, which was launched from the Baikonur spaceport on May 27, brought to the ISS the residence crew of the 20th ISS mission ? Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk. Upon their arrival at the ISS the first enlarged crew of six astronauts will begin working at the ISS; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass.