The transport manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-20M” with the next crew of the International Space Station docked with the Small research module MIM-2 ISS Russian segment. This was to “Interfax” spokesman for the Russian Space Agency.
According to him, docked at 6:10 MSK performed automatically. Was implemented “short” spacecraft rendezvous scheme with the station.
07:00 January 23, 2015
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On board the ship arrived the crew 47/48 expedition – Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams
The planned duration of the flight of the new expedition will be 173 days. As part of the expedition is planned for Bole 40 scientific experiments.
It is also planned to work with cargo spacecraft “Progress M-M” and “Progress MS”, with the American cargo ships Dragon and Cygnus.
carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG” with the transport ship was successfully launched from Baikonur at 00:26 MSK.
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