Soyuz Spacecraft Docks In Record Time With ISS
The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-08M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, March 29, 2013. Get Science Alerts:Sign Up Follow: Soyuz Landing, Soyuz, Soyuz Capsule, Soyuz Launch, Soyuz Rocket, Soyuz Spacecraft, Soyuz Spacecraft Docks,Science News MOSCOW — A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts successfully docked Friday with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six. Chris Cassidy of the United States and Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin traveled six hours in the capsule before linking up with the space station's Russian Rassvet research module over the Pacific Ocean, just off Peru. "It's such a beautiful sight, hard to believe my eyes," the 59-year-old Vinogradov, who had been in space in 1997 and 2006, was heard saying on NASA TV. The incoming crew will spend five mont...