Soyuz spaceship with two cosmonauts of the crew docks to new ISS module
18:53, 21 January 2010
KOROLEV (Moscow region). January 21. KAZINFORM. The manned spaceship Soyuz with two cosmonauts of the crew of the 22nd main expedition has been successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) after an orbital trip. Spokesman for the Mission Control Centre outside Moscow Valery Lyndin told Itar-Tass that "at 13:24, Moscow time, Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev in a manual operation docked the Soyuz-TMA-16 spaceship to a docking port of the Poisk module (MIM-2)"; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams helped to control the work of the spaceship's onboard systems during the redocking from the Zvezda service module. "The manoeuvre was conducted in a normal mode," Lyndin stressed.
The Zvezda module was freed from the Soyuz for the docking with the Progress cargo spacecraft the launch of which from the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for February 3, as well as for an orbit correction manoeuvre with the use of the service module's engines; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass.