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Expedition Reaches Space Station
The Soyuz TMA-10 spaceship, launched from Baikonur on April 7, has reached the International Space Station, the flight control center outside Moscow reports. The linking of the two craft was broadcast live to the command center at flight control. A large delegation from Malaysia observed. It was accompanying the Malaysian cosmonaut candidate, whose flight is supposed to take off in the autumn of this year.
On board the Soyuz TMA-10 were Russian cosmonauts Fedor Yurchikhin (commander) and Oleg Kotov (engineer). Charles Simonyi flew as the world's fifth space tourist. Kotov was the 100th person sent into orbit by the Soviet Union and Russia.
Russian Mikhail Tyurin and Americans Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunnita Williams are currently on the space station. Williams will remain there with Yurchikhin and Kotov. She will return to Earth on an American shuttle in June. The current crew of the space station went on night shift in preparation for the docking of the Soyuz. While they had been getting up at 9:00 a.m. Moscow time, they now rise at 7:30 p.m. and go to bed at 11:00 a.m.
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