MOSCOW, 19 March. / TASS /. The crew of the spaceship “Soyuz TMA-20M”, just over an hour ago, docked to the International Space Station (ISS), opened the passageways and went to the station, reported on Saturday TASS in the Mission Control Center (MCC).
“transfer hatches between the spacecraft and the station are open”, – said in the MCC
On the “Union” arrived Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka and US astronaut Jeffrey Williams.. Aboard the station, they were met by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, American astronaut Timothy Kopra and British astronaut Timothy Peak.
Immediately after the meeting the two crews will introduce beginners to the ISS, will conduct an emergency evacuation route from the station in case of emergency. After that held a teleconference with a combined crew and the suburban Houston TsUPami.
It is planned that the new members of the ISS crew will spend 173 days in orbit. During the semi-annual expedition they will take a series of Russian spaceships “Soyuz” and “Progress”, as well as the American cargo ship Dragon and Cygnus. Scientific program provides performance of 60 experiments.
Launch vehicle “Soyuz-FG” with the spacecraft “TMA-20M Soyuz” was launched from the platform number 1 so called Gagarin’s start the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) on March 19 to 00 : 26 MSK. After six hours, the ship docked to a small research module “Search”.
The captain Ovchinin took the call sign “Burlak”, explaining that it comes from Rybinsk, which previously was considered a kind of capital of the boatmen.
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