Tag: Fyodor Yurchikhin

Three astronauts reach ISS for five-month mission

by Kirill Kudryavtsev  Agence France-Presse   BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AFP) – Two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut docked at the International Space Station for a five month mission on Wednesday following a night-time launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said that the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft “successfully docked” at the ISS at 0255 GMT in a statement on its website. The Soyuz rocket carrying Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, NASA first-time flyer Mark Vande Hei […]