Soyuz docks with ISS
Posted: Sun, Oct 10, 2010, 3:50 PM ET (1950 GMT) A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new International Space Station crew members docked with the station Saturday evening. The Soyuz TMA-01M docked with the Poisk module of the station at 8:01 pm EDT Saturday (0001 GMT Sunday), and hatches separating the Soyuz from the station opened about three hours later. On board the Soyuz were Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka and American astronaut Scott Kelly, who joined the three people already on the station. The Soyuz, the first a modernized generation of spacecraft, launched from Kazakhstan on Friday.
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