The 'TMA-22 Combined Ship' successfully coupled with ISS

According to a reporter in the Russian Federation, on November 16, the "TMA-22 Conjugated" spacecraft successfully assembled with the International Space Station (ISS) in an automatic mode.

The "TMA-22 Combined" ship was launched from Baikonur Space Station, Kazakhstan on November 14, carrying a new international fleet of two Russian astronauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin and American astronaut Daniel Burbank.

Welcoming them on ISS are three astronauts Sergey Volkov, Russia; Mike Fossum, USA and Satoshi Furukawa, Japan.

Under the previously approved plan, the "TMA-22 Combined" ship is scheduled to be launched on ISS on September 22, but due to an accident on August 24, the cargo ship "Progress M-22M" This launcher has been postponed.

For more than 4 months working on ISS, the new fleet will have a trip to work outside the aerospace, receive and unload goods from two "Tien Tien" cargo ships and carry out a scientific research program. Large scale of 37 experiments.

On November 22, the old international fleet of 3 astronauts from Russia, the US and Japan will return to Earth.