How a new crew arrived at the International Space Station
In short: This video captures the moment the Expedition 47-48 crew successfully docked with the International Space Station, marking a critical crew rotation for the orbital laboratory.
The mission involved Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On March 19, the crew arrived to join the existing station residents.
The incoming crew included Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin, Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, and NASA's Jeff Williams. They were added to the station crew alongside NASA's Commander Tim Kopra and Flight Engineers Tim Peake from the European Space Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos.
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