The Soyuz spacecraft and the International Space Station have successfully connected

On Friday night, the Soyuz spacecraft with the new crew successfully connected to the International Space Station (ISS).

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After opening the door, Russian astronauts Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronaut Steven Swanson went to the station and were welcomed by the host. It is this Russian astronaut Mikhail Tyurin, American astronaut Rick Mastracchio and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.

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The road to ISS became farther than planned. Due to program malfunction, Soyuz had to do an operation. I had to give up the access program, when the train connected to the station after 6 hours from the start of the launch and switched to normal mode 2 days and nights. The "short" approach has advantages and disadvantages, deputy editor of the magazine "News of Cosmonautics" Igor Lisov said:

'If you save time, it takes a lot of fuel. 6-hour mode imposes very serious restrictions on start-up time. This system facilitates the reduction of the work of the experiments, urgently needed to bring their goods to the station. For example, biological samples. But the short variant is more sensitive to the inaccuracies and deviations from the old plan. "

In the next six months, the expedition will receive some cargo ships. According to the science program, more than two hundred experiments will be conducted. The first task of the new expedition is to receive and unload consumer goods and spare parts from the unmanned "Dragon" unmanned transport spacecraft . Among them was the "leg" for NASA robot "Robonot 2" (R2), the body and head were transferred to the ISS space station three years ago. Since the Soyuz spacecraft arrived late at the station, the Dragon cargo ship would not be launched on Monday as planned, but delayed a day later.