KOROLYOV, Moscow region, December 23 (Itar-Tass) —— The Soyuz TMA-03M manned spaceship with an international crew docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 7:19 p.m. Moscow time, a source at the Russian mission control center told Itar-Tass.

The spaceship launched from Baikonur 21 delivered to the ISS Oleg Kononenko of Russia, Andrei Kuipers of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Donald Pettit of NASA. The Soyuz TMA-03M crew will enlarge the ISS crew to the regular six members.