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Russia's manned spacecraft docks with ISS
Saturday December 24, 2011 08:14:41 AM,
IANS
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Moscow: Russia's Soyuz
TMA-03M spacecraft with three astronauts onboard has docked with
the International Space Station (ISS), the Mission Control Centre
said.
The spacecraft docked with the ISS' Rassvet mini-research module
at 1919 Moscow time (1519 GMT) Friday, Xinhua reported.
The new crew include Russia's Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers from
the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA's Donald Pettit.
The trio would join Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoli Ivanishin from
Russia and Daniel Burbank from NASA at the ISS and spend 147 days
in space.
Russian federal space agency Roscosmos said the enlarged ISS crew
would conduct 71 scientific experiments as well as a space walk
Feb 14.
RIA Novosti said the mission's programme also includes the docking
of five freighters from different states -- two Russian Progress
spacecraft, the European unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft
ATV-003 Edoardo Amaldi and two US freighters.
The Soyuz TMA-03M had blasted off from the Baikonur space centre
in Kazakhstan Wednesday.
After the retirement of the US shuttle fleet, Russia's Soyuz has
become the only way for astronauts to reach the ISS.
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