Soyuz capsule docks with International Space Station
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A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-member multinational crew docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday (July 17) at 1251 A.M. EST (0451GMT), as the station was flying over northeastern Kazakhstan.
The trio of Russian, Japanese and American astronauts aboard the Soyuz spaceship arrived for a four-month mission on the ISS that Moscow hopes will help restore confidence in its space programme.
Veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide will join NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin aboard the ISS, a $100 billion research complex orbiting 240 miles above Earth.
Since the retirement of the space shuttles last year, the United States is dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the ISS, which costs the nation $60 million per person.
A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-member multinational crew docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday (July 17) at 1251 A.M. EST (0451GMT), as the station was flying over northeastern Kazakhstan.
The trio of Russian, Japanese and American astronauts aboard the Soyuz spaceship arrived for a four-month mission on the ISS that Moscow hopes will help restore confidence in its space programme.
Veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide will join NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin aboard the ISS, a $100 billion research complex orbiting 240 miles above Earth.
Since the retirement of the space shuttles last year, the United States is dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the ISS, which costs the nation $60 million per person.