Russian capsule carrying 3 docks with space station – The Associated Press

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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian reveal tablet with three astronauts aboard has docked with the World Space Space after a speedily-note day skedaddle to the orbiting laboratory.

The Soyuz tablet docked at 22: 48 GMT Saturday, just right six hours and 20 minutes after blasting off from Russia’s launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

The launch took repute on the 50th anniversary of the day U.S. astronauts landed on the moon.

The tablet is carrying Andrew Morgan of the United States on his first spaceflight, Russian Alexander Skvortsov on his third mission to the reveal set and Italian Luca Parmitano.

They are going to brand up for Russian Alexey Ovchinin and Americans Slash Hague and Christina Koch like been aboard since March.

The crew patch for the expedition echoes the one from Apollo 11′s 1969 lunar mission.

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This story has been corrected to divulge the remaining name of the Russian cosmonaut in reveal since March is Ovchinin, not Ovechkin.

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