Soyuz TMA-01M Expedition 25 docks with the International Space Station

Expedition 25 Soyuz Commander Alexander Kaleri, NASA Flight Engineer Scott Kelly
and Russian Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka were launched on the
Russian Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft on Oct. 8 (Oct. 7, U.S. time)
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a two-day journey
to the International Space Station. The trio will dock to the
station Oct. 10 (Oct. 9, U.S. time) to start a six-month tour
on the orbiting laboratory, joining station Commander Doug Wheelock,
and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin,
who have been in orbit since June.

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[FranklinParkIL]

The dock has to be built like a refrigerator door. How many times do you open and close your refrigerator door over the course of twenty years? Was the docking mechanism actually put through a dock- undock test in a R&D (research and development) facility for number of times before failure?

Good steering! Right on the mark!