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Three astronauts reach the International space station ISS

After two days in a new space-ship, a Team of three States, has reached the ISS. The science learning is likely to be in the next four months, hardly boring – because on a full program is waiting.

The US-astronaut Kathleen Rubins before the Start

After a two-day flight with a modernized Soyuz capsule with three astronauts arrived at the International space station ISS. The new capsule-type Soyuz-MS was floated plan to post on the outside of humanity, around 400 kilometers above the earth, the US space Agency NASA announced on Twitter.

The US-astronaut Kathleen Rubins, and Japanese Takuya Onishi, and the Russian Anatoly Ivanishin need to research for four months on the ISS and work. They reinforce the previous crew, a US Astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts belong to. The missile was launched Thursday from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in the Ex-Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan.

Ruby with Anatoly Ivanishin and Takuya Onishi in Baikonur

Normally, the trip from Kazakhstan to the nearby space station to the ISS, only about six hours. The approach has now been extended specifically to be able to 34 times around the world, the functioning of the modernised Soyuz-capsule-depth under real flight conditions test.

New, better, stronger

The Soyuz System was retrofitted with an improved navigation system, a stronger drive and a better shield against space debris. In addition, the motors are arranged differently, causing the Dock to the ISS will be safer, said the cosmonaut Ivanishin before departure. The Start had been delayed by two weeks because of a Russian technician of the modernized Soyuz space vehicle is still extensive After-Tests make wanted.

Launch of the Soyuz rocket on Thursday

In addition to the usual food rations and technical equipment, the space, the driver will have distributed fresh fruits and a total of 450 grams of caviar on several cans of food in the baggage, such as the Russian Academy of Sciences pre-announced.

Photographers follow the departure of the spaceman

For the next four months, the newcomers have more than 250 experiments on the Agenda. The 37-year-old PhD Molekularbiologion ruby to decrypt, among other things, for the first time in micro-gravity, human genome, said the US space Agency NASA. In addition, the astronauts will install a new Adapter for docking maneuvers at the ISS. This is to facilitate new types of ship, the mooring of the ISS.

Stu/haz (afp, dpa)

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