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July 22, 2015
STATION NEWS
Rocket carrying Russian, Japanese, US crew docks with ISS
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Jul 23, 2015
Astronauts from Russia, Japan and the United States Thursday docked successfully with the International Space Station under six hours after they launched, NASA television showed. The Soyuz TMA 17M rocket - carrying cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, US astronaut Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui of Japan - had roared skyward from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the barren Kazakh steppe at 2102 GMT. After a fly-around at around 350 metres (1,150 feet), the rocket manoeuvred to rendezvous with the ISS at ... read more
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EXO LIFE

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