BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan), March 19 -. RIA Novosti Manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-20M” launched from Baikonur on 19 March docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in the automatic mode, the correspondent . RIA News from the Baikonur cosmodrome, where there is a broadcast from Moscow Mission control Center (MCC)
Fortunately, the crew intervention in the automatic rendezvous and docking, “course”, as well as the transition to the teleoperator mode is not required: nominally ship moored to the ISS Russian segment
On board the “Soyuz TMA-20M” has a logo -. stylized image of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the headset. On board the “Union” also flaunts his famous phrase: “Let’s go!” and numbers “1961-2016″ in honor of the 55th anniversary of the flight
At the station a new crew -. Alexei Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka (Roskosmos) and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams after the opening of the hatches meet Timothy Kopra (US NASA) Timothy Peak (United Kingdom, ESA), and Yuri Malenchenko (Russia, Roscosmos).
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