“Union” with the image of Gagarin successfully docked to the ISS – BBC

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manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-20M” launched from Baikonur on 19 March docked with the International Space Station (ISS) automatically transmits RIA «News» .

it is noted that the intervention of the crew in the operation of the automatic rendezvous and docking system “Kurs”, as well as the transition to the teleoperator mode is not required. Ship nominally moored to the ISS Russian Segment.

Previous reported that the carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG” with the manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-20M” launched from Baikonur.

On the orbit of the ship delivered a new ISS crew: Alexei Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka (Roskosmos) and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams. The duration of the expedition is scheduled to make a 173 day

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