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Russian Rocket Docks with Space Station
Updated: Friday, 17 Dec 2010, 3:24 PM PST
Published : Friday, 17 Dec 2010, 3:24 PM PST
(AFP) - A Russian Soyuz space rocket carrying three astronauts docked with the International Space Station (ISS) Friday, Russia's mission control said.
"The automatic docking passed off successfully," said spokesman Valery Lyndin, quoted by the Russian news agency Interfax.
The Soyuz TMA-20 rocket, with a Russian, an Italian and an American onboard, blasted off Wednesday from Kazakhstan.
The three-member crew was due to open the airlock at 23:00 GMT to enter the ISS, where they will join NASA's Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka aboard the ISS.
They were due to carry out a mission lasting nearly six months and scheduled to return from the ISS in May 2011.
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