The spacecraft Soyuz TMA-20M merged with the station ISS – rmf24.pl

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                          Today, March 19 (7:24)

Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-20M with a three-crew, which took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) – announced the morning, the Russian space agency Roskosmos.

 
                                                     

American astronaut Jeffrey Williams / YURI Kochetkov / PAP / EPA

on board the Soyuz arrived at the ISS Russian cosmonauts Alexei Owczynin and Oleg Skripoczka and American astronaut Jeffrey Williams.

the 58-year-old Williams is the fourth flight into space. According to the schedule the ISS to return to Earth in September, with the balance sheet total of 534 days spent in space. Establish in this area another American record. Owczynin takes his first flight into space and Skripoczka second.

When you connect the Soyuz TMA-20M with the international station, the crew will increase to six people.

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