Russian Soyuz spacecraft has successfully completed its journey and has docked at the International Space Station (ISS for its acronym in English) on 04.45 (GMT) on Thursday . That’s when the floodgates opened and the ISS carrying three crew members on board who will be able to enter their home for the next six months.
“The coupling took place at the scheduled time, six hours after launch and in automatic mode. Fortunately, it took the intervention of cosmonauts to switch to manual mode,” said the Russian space agency spokesman Roscosmo, quoted by state news agency RIA Novosti.
mission 37 is composed of the Russian Oleg Kotov and Sergei Riazanski and NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins. Oleg Kotov is the only one with prior spatial experience , specifically in two missions, while for his peers is his first spaceflight.
join the Russian astronauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, current commander of the ship, and their fellow passengers Karen Nyberg of Luca Parmitano NASA and European Space Agency (ESA).
During the 168 days that will last mission on the ISS, cosmonauts conducted numerous scientific experiments , downloaded several Russian Progress cargo ships and facilitate the engagement of the European cargo spacecraft ATV-4 Albert Einstein and private Cygnus freighter. The latter was attached to the International station last Sunday but the procedure was delayed by a computer glitch.
crew share space until next November 11 , when Yurchikhin, Nyberg and leave the ISS Pamitano ending its mission. Newcomers will remain in space until next March.
“I feel very fortunate to be the first in my class to be launched into space,” said Hopkins release to the media before. “I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of my classmates in a future space launch,” he added.
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