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Soyuz TMA-08M docked successfully with ISS. / April 2, 2013 /On March 29 at 06:28:22 Moscow Time the Soyuz TM-08 manned cargo ship docked successfully with the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft docked with the Mini-Research Module POISK of the ISS Russian Segment. The rendezvous was performed automatically under the control of specialists from Mission Control Center of TsNIIMash, crew of the mission consisting of two Russian cosmonauts, Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Aleksandr Misurkin (ROSCOSMOS), and one U.S. astronaut, Flight Engineer Christopher Cassidy (NASA), and the Russian ISS crew member Roman Romanenko. The Soyuz TMA-08M was launched and docked with the ISS successfully by the four-orbit scheme that has been first used for crewed flight. Upon opening the hatches between the spaceship and ISS, the crew of Expedition 35/36 will start its work consisting of Commander Chris Hadfield (Canadian Space Agency), Flight Engineers Roman Romanenko, Pavel Vinogradov, Aleksandr Misurkin (ROSCOSMOS), Thomas Marshburn and Christopher Cassidy (NASA). Physico-Chemical Processes and Materials in Space – 2 experiments; Press-service of ROSCOSMOS |
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