Soyuz docks with ISS
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 7:22 AM ET (1122 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station early Tuesday, bringing one Russian and two Americans, including a space tourist, to the orbiting outpost. The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft docked with the nadir port of the Zarya module at 4:26 am EDT (0826 GMT), just over 48 hours after the spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On board the spacecraft are American astronaut Mike Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, members of the Expedition 18 crew on the ISS. Also on the Soyuz is Richard Garriott, the sixth space tourist to the fly to the station. Garriott will stat on the station for nine days, returning on the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft already docked to the station with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Oleg Kononenko.
A Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station early Tuesday, bringing one Russian and two Americans, including a space tourist, to the orbiting outpost. The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft docked with the nadir port of the Zarya module at 4:26 am EDT (0826 GMT), just over 48 hours after the spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On board the spacecraft are American astronaut Mike Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, members of the Expedition 18 crew on the ISS. Also on the Soyuz is Richard Garriott, the sixth space tourist to the fly to the station. Garriott will stat on the station for nine days, returning on the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft already docked to the station with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Oleg Kononenko.
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