The Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft brings new crews to ISS

On the morning of March 26, the Russian Soyuz rocket carried a manned spacecraft with three new astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

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NASA agency said that two astronauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) with NASA astronaut Steve Swanson are on the Soyuz TMA spacecraft - 12M on the journey to the station ISS.

The Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft was launched at the Baikonur, Kazakhstan space airport (Photo: CNN)

The Soyuz TMA - 12M spacecraft was launched at Baikonur, Kazakhstan space airport, expected to dock at ISS after six hours of departure.

Astronauts will travel around the Earth four times before they approach and dock at the orbit laboratory. NASA said: 'As usual, Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemyev will have a few days to get used to the new environment in space. They will live, work on here for about six months'.

All three new astronauts will join the ISS leader - Koichi Wakata (Japan), Rick Mastracchio (United States) and Mikhail Tyurin (Russia) - who are expected to return home in May.

Some of the work of this period astronauts is the daily blogging blog on ISS, the monitoring of the Progress cargo ship (Russia) and the tracking of the arrival of the logistics supply vessel ATV-5 ( Europe) into the ISS station. At the same time astronauts will launch 'manual' by hand a Peruvian mini satellite during the space walk.