CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A pair of rookie Russian cosmonauts and a veteran U.S. astronaut arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, boosting the crew back to full strength and bringing along 32 Japanese medaka fish. Soyuz spacecraft commander Oleg Novitskiy, flight engineer Evgeny Tarelkin and NASA’s Kevin Ford ended a two-day journey [...]

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A pair of rookie Russian cosmonauts and a veteran U.S. astronaut arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, boosting the crew back to full strength and bringing along 32 Japanese medaka fish.

Soyuz spacecraft commander Oleg Novitskiy, flight engineer Evgeny Tarelkin and NASA’s Kevin Ford ended a two-day journey at the orbital outpost as the ships sailed 254 miles above the planet.
The $100 billion station, a project of 15 nations, had had a crew of three onboard since September 16 because of normal rotation schedules.

“It is so great to see all six of you on orbit and to see your smiling faces,” William Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for spaceflight, radioed to the crew from the Russian mission control near Moscow.

The 33rd space station crew blasted off on Tuesday aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Ford, who flew as the pilot on a 2009 space shuttle mission, said he noticed different noises and vibrations riding on the Soyuz, but he found the trip just as enjoyable.

“The two days went really quickly,” Ford told family and friends gathered at the Russian mission control during a televised welcoming ceremony. “It was an incredible ride.”




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