A Soyuz space capsule carrying a Russian, an American and a Japanese docked smoothly on Thursday July 23,2015 with the ISS
Astronauts from Russia, the US and Japan have successfully docked at the International Space Station.
The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft with the international three-man crew blasts off from Kazakhstan
Astronauts from Russia, the US and Japan have successfully docked at the International Space Station.
Less than six hours after take-off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome, Kjell Lindgren from the US, Kimiya Yui of Japan and Russian Oleg Kononenko safely arrived at the orbital outpost.
The three astronauts had been set to take off in May 2015 but Moscow was forced to delay the mission after the April 28,2015 crash when an unmanned Soyuz rocket carrying cargo for the ISS had failed to reach the station.
The ship lost contact with mission control and burned up in the atmosphere before crashing back to Earth.
The team has joined the existing ISS crew of Russians Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly from the US
Kjell Lindgren of US, Oleg Kononenko of Russia and Kimiya Yui of Japan pose
Manned flights to the ISS are currently only possible with Russia's ageing Soviet space technology.
The US retired its Space Shuttle operation in 2011.
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