Ooooh , pretty ! This is the Soyuz spacecraft shake the Bond of gravity to carry spaceman to the International Space Station in the itsy-bitsy hours of this morning . After a abbreviated moorage hiccup , the trinity bring together the station crew to kick off Expedition 46 .
Soyuz TMA-19 M launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan . Image credit : NASA / Joel Kowsky
The Soyuz TMA-19 M spacecraftblasted off from Kazakhstan early this morning , quicklyreaching orbit without incident . Six hours after launching , the space vehicle arrive at the International Space Station . Here , the automate docking succession aborted , backing way to 450 animal foot ( 140 meters ) and impart astronaut Yuri Malenchenko to manually bob the spacecraft . earth control confirm a solid docking seal of approval at 12:24pm , just nine min behind agenda .
Soyuz TMA-19 get in at the International Space Station . Image credit : NASA / Scott Kelly
Malenchenko , Tim Kopra , and Tim Peake are link Scott Kelly , Mikhail Kornienko , and Sergey Volkov on the station . Malenchenko is the most experienced of the newly - launched trinity with experience on Mir and the space station , including participating in early shuttle missions to prepare the post for farsighted - terminus inhabitation . This is the second mission to the space place for Kopra , and the first infinite delegacy for Peake .
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