The ship TMA-04M successfully assembled with the ISS station

On the morning of May 17, the TMA-04M Combined Ship carrying the 31st-Russian Russian-American international fleet, successfully assembled with the ISS International Space Station automatically.

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Combined Ship TMA-04M was launched on May 15.

TMA-04M Combined Ship carrying two Russian astronauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and American astronaut Joseph Acaba were launched into orbit near Earth from Baikonur, Kazakhstan airport on May 15, with a mission to replace the team. Current international flights and long-term work on ISS (expected 4-5 months).

The 30th international fleet consists of three astronauts Oleg Kononenko, Russia, Andre Kuipers, European Space Agency and Donald Pettit, the US have worked on ISS since the end of December 2011 and will return to Earth. the end of June.

In 126 days and nights working on ISS, the 31st international air fleet will receive and unload cargo from two progressive cargo ships and Japan's HTV cargo ship, welcoming the first commercial cargo ship of the United States. "Orb-D" and the Dragon ship, worked many times out of space, conducted nearly 200 experiments and scientific research.

Astronaut Padalka once made three long-range flights to orbit with 585 days and nights and eight times out of space.