Soyuz docks with ISS
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 10:44 PM ET (0244 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and one American successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday. The Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft docked with the station's Poisk module at 8:29 am EDT (1229 GMT) Thursday, two days after launch from Baikonur. Hatches separating the Soyuz from the station opened a short time later. The Soyuz brought to the station Russian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy and American astronaut Kevin Ford, restoring the station to a six-person crew.
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and one American successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday. The Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft docked with the station's Poisk module at 8:29 am EDT (1229 GMT) Thursday, two days after launch from Baikonur. Hatches separating the Soyuz from the station opened a short time later. The Soyuz brought to the station Russian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy and American astronaut Kevin Ford, restoring the station to a six-person crew.
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