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Soyuz spaceship brings 3 flight engineers to ISS

The spaceship brought to the ISS the Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency and Thomas Mashburn of NASA

KOROLYOV, Moscow region, December 21 (Itar-Tass) – Soyuz TMA-07M spaceship, which lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan Wednesday, with an international crew aboard docked to the International Space Station at 18:09 Moscow Standard Time /14:09 GMT/ in the automatic mode, a spokesman for Russia’s Ground Control Mission told Itar-Tass.

“The spaceship brought to the ISS the Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency and Thomas Mashburn of NASA.

Upon their arrival the crew of ISS has again become six-strong.