BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan), March 28 – RIA Novosti. manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-16M” launched from “Baikonur” six hours ago, docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in automatic mode , told RIA news from the spaceport “Baikonur”.
“Fortunately, the intervention of the crew in the system of automatic rendezvous and docking” course “and go to the teleoperator mode is not required: the ship docked to the ISS nominally” – said the official.
According to the plan, Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly aboard the ISS to work for a year, they return to Earth is planned March 3, 2016. Gennady Padalka must return to Earth before – as a result of a six-month mission, he will be the record for total time spent in space (total duration of 878 days), and ahead of another Russian cosmonaut, the former head of the Cosmonaut Training Center Sergei Krikalev, who spent a total of ISS and station “Mir” 803 days.
The astronauts realize a total of 49 on-orbit experiments. Almost half of them – on the medical direction. Mikhail Kornienko noted that the crew took to orbit the flag of victory and a small flag of Russia, who on May 9 will seal stamped onboard the ISS and then returned to Earth. During his stay a new expedition to the ISS scheduled execution of works with Russian cargo spacecraft “Progress” and a spacewalk.
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