A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a three-man crew including Koichi Wakata of Japan successfully docked with the International Space Station Thursday after being launched from Kazakhstan.
Wakata will stay at the ISS for about six months, including the final two months when he is scheduled to serve as the first Japanese commander.The spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:14 a.m. (4:14 a.m. GMT) and entered Earth's orbit at an altitude of some 200 kilometers about nine minutes later. The crew entered the ISS some two hours after the spacecraft docked with it at 4:27 p.m.
Source NewsOnJapan
Source NewsOnJapan
