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Soyuz spaceship successfully docks with ISS

The new expedition will work in orbit for more than four months
Photo EPA/ITAR-TASS
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BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan), May 29 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Soyuz TMA-09M spaceship successfully docked with the International Space Station at 06:10 Moscow time, Baikonur launch pad sources have told Tass.

The spaceship, carrying the crew of the ISS-36/37 mission of Roscosmos cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, docked with the ISS in an automated mode.

The new expedition will work in orbit for more than four months.