Russian-US crew board ISS
KOROLYOV, Russia (AFP) Oct 16, 2004
Russian cosmonauts Salizhan Sharipov and Yuri Shargin and US astronaut Leroy Chiao early Saturday boarded the International Space Station (ISS), as shown on live broadcast at mission control center near Moscow.They were greeted on board the ISS by Russia's Gennady Padalka and American Michael Fincke, who have been living there since last April. A Russian Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft carrying Sharipov, Shargin and Chiao earlier docked with the ISS, after blasting off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur space base Thursday.
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