Video Courtesy NASA TV ( http://www.nasa.gov/ntv )
Soyuz TMA-20 successfully docked to the International Space Station today at 11:12 p.m. MSK. The vehicle is now attached to the Rassvet docking port. The rendezvous and docking was in automatic mode, under the control of the MCC experts and the crew.
After leak check of the interface and the compartments, TMA-20 crew -- Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratiev, Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman -- will join Alexander Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka and Scott Kelly to start the 6-crew stage of increment 26.
ISS-26 commander is NASA's Scott Kelly, who is to be replaced by Dmitry Kondratiev as ISS-27 commander.
Credit: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=11060
Reference:
The Russian Federal Space Agency: Roscosmos (russian & english)
http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php
Roscosmos TV (russian only): http://tvroscosmos.ru/
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