The Russian Soyuz spacecraft with an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on board who came Friday from Baikonur, docked at the International Space Station (ISS) where two of them remain one year, confirmed Russian control centers and NASA.
The Soyuz-TMA16M off as scheduled at 19h42 GMT from the Baikonur Kazakhstan making a flight without incident six hours reaching orbit coupling at 01:33 GMT on Saturday, a television commentator NASA maneuver live broadcast said.
The three occupants of the Soyuz, the Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko and American astronaut Scott Kelly, flight engineer, NASA, will be received by the three current members of the crew of the ISS.
This is US Terry Virts, current commander, Russian Anton Shkaplerov and Italian Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA). Terry Virts and his Italian colleague will return to earth in May.
Mikhail Kornienko, 54, and Scott Kelly, 51, will remain 342 days on the ISS, the period have remained longer than astronauts on the station since the entry into service of the first habitable module in 2000.
The two men have already made missions six months on the station, the period habitual who often remain crews. This mission aims to “gather biomedical data to prepare inhabited long-term missions in space” now that the United States plans to send astronauts to Mars in years.
AFP
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