“TMA-20M Soyuz” brought astronauts to the space station – Rosbalt.RU

 Launched from Baikonur this morning manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-20M” automatically makes docking with the International Space Station (ISS).

 “Union”, which is sent into orbit a rocket-carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG” cleanly landed on the Russian segment of the space station, said the Russian Space Agency.

 Interventions in the work of the crew of automatic rendezvous and docking system “Kurs”, as well as the transition to the teleoperator mode is not required.

 On the ISS came new crew: Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams. Members of the expedition will spend 173 days in orbit.

 In anticipation of the change from the Earth to the ISS remained Timothy Kopra (USA, NASA’s), Timothy Peak (United Kingdom, ESA) and Yuri Malenchenko (Russia, Roscosmos).