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Russian manned spaceship docks with space station
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-05-29 22:16

MOSCOW -- A Russian spaceship with three astronauts aboard docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, the Mission Control Center outside Moscow said.

The Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft docked with the ISS at 04:36 pm Moscow Time (1236 GMT) in automatic regime, said Valery Lyndin, spokesman for the Mission Control Center.

Russian manned spaceship docks with space station
The Russian rocket carrying three astronauts takes off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan on May 27. [Agencies]

The space capsule blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

The astronauts, Russian Roman Romanenko, Belgian Franc De Winne and Canadian Robert Thirskare, are expected to open the hatch and enter the ISS at around 06:00 pm Moscow time (1400 GMT).

The incoming crew will join Russian commander Gennady Padalka, US astronaut Michael Barratt and Japan's Koichi Wakata, forming a six-member permanent crew for the first time.

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