On December 15, the crew of a new expedition – Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, American Timothy Kopra and Briton Timothy Peak – went on board the ISS, said the Russian Space Agency.
Source: Pravda.Ru
According to Tass, the ministry explained that “new crew opened hatches between the spacecraft and the station at the estimated time. Now, Yuri Malenchenko, Timothy Kopra and Timothy Peak will meet with them on a waiting Station colleagues – Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergei Volkov and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly “.
According to the newspaper, Volkov works at the ISS in September of this year, but Kornienko and Kelly – with March this year, They arrived at the station with part of the annual expeditions.
Earlier, a source in the space industry told the publication that the docking of the “Union” with the ISS failed to rendezvous system “Kurs-A” because of what Ship docked to the station manually, not automatically. “Failure in the automatic docking of” Kurs-A “was due to crosstalk radio signal from the US cargo ship” Cygnus “(located in the part of the ISS since December 9 – approx. Tass)”, – said the source.
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