Spaceship carrying three-man crew docks
with ISS, NASA TV reports
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[October 27, 2016]
(Reuters) -
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying an
American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts docked with the
International Space Station on Friday, NASA TV reported, two days after
blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. |
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The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft carrying the crew of Shane Kimbrough of the
U.S., Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Russia blasts off to the
International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur
cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, October 19, 2016. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov |
The spaceship
with NASA's Shane Kimbrough and Russians Sergey Ryzhikov and
Andrey Borisenko on board completed the docking maneuver at 0952
GMT.
The trio has joined three other ISS crew members - Kate Rubins
of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - who have manned the station
since July and are due to return to Earth on Oct. 29.
Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and Borisenko's Expedition 49-50 mission
will last until February.
The next Soyuz mission is set to blast off to the station, which
orbits about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, on Nov. 16.
NASA hopes to resume flying station crewmembers from the United
States in 2018 aboard capsules under development by Boeing Co
<BA.N> and privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or
SpaceX.
(Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov in Almaty; Editing by Katya
Golubkova and Alison Williams)
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