The spaceship Russian Soyuz arrived on Saturday to the International Space Station (ISS) with astronaut French, a Russian and an american, for a mission of four months.
“Capture confirmed,” said the commentator on NASA when the ship docked to the ISS at the 04H58 pm (21H58 GMT), showed live images of the agency for the television.
The three astronauts had taken off from the base of Baikonur (Kazakhstan) on Thursday at 20h20 GMT.
After the separation of the capsule MS-03 of the third floor of the legendary spacecraft to be placed in orbit 200 km of the Earth about nine minutes after lift-off, the crew stayed more than 48 hours in the tiny module of only 2.5 meters long.
For the docking, the ship was placed at the same height as the ISS, moving at 28,000 km/h, 400 km above the earth.
In the six months that remain on-board facilities, the French Thomas Pesquet should be done at least 62 experiences of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Centre of Space Studies (Cnes, France). You must also carry out other 55 experiences in collaboration with the space agencies, american, canadian and japanese.
The French will consider the impact of the absence of gravity on the muscles human, an analysis whose results can help to heal the myopathies. Test technologies that could revolutionize the water purification systems or materials to self-cleaning that can be used in hospitals.
The american Peggy Whitson will conduct experiments about the impact of light on the sleep cycle, while the Russian Oleg Novitski held more than 50 scientific tests commissioned by the space agency of your country, Roskosmos.
The three astronauts would be received by the american Shane Kimbrough and the russians Serguei Ryjikov and Andrei Borissenko, landed on the 19th of October.
The commander aboard the Soyuz, Oleg Novitski, has great experience in the space. This expiloto of the Russian Air Force, 45 years of age and who has just become a father, he spent five months at the international space station, in 2012 and 2013.
Peggy Whitson (56 years) accumulated 376 days in space, and totals six departures extravehicular. Its first flight dates back to 2002, and already has two stays on the ISS.
Thomas Pesquet, a expiloto line 38, the tenth French in space travel and the first since 2008, is the youngest of the team.
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