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RE: Expedition 20

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The Soyuz TMA-15 capsule has successfully docked to International Space Station.
The hatches will be opened up shortly.

The new crew members are to spend a total of six months aboard the station, raising its crew complement to six for the first time.

-- Edited by Blobrana on Friday 29th of May 2009 12:47:06 PM

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Final Approach

-- Edited by Blobrana on Friday 29th of May 2009 12:43:52 PM

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Approach sequence

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The International Space Station's crew is set to double when a Russian capsule carrying three astronauts arrives at the orbiting outpost.
The new crew members are to spend a total of six months aboard the station, raising its crew complement to six for the first time.
The Soyuz TMA-15 capsule carrying the astronauts is set to dock with the ISS at 1336 BST (0836 EDT).

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OasISS mission

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RE: Expedition 20

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TLE Data

SOYUZ-TMA 15 
1 35010U 09030A   09147.49454805 -.00003756  11876-4  00000+0 0    24
2 35010 050.5807 053.2901 0047119 078.2970 282.3492 16.21627984    18

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The International Space Station crew is awaiting the arrival of three new members that will usher in an era of six-person crews aboard the orbiting laboratory. Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Bob Thirsk launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft Wednesday morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The Soyuz is scheduled to dock with the station at 8:36 a.m. EDT Friday, May 29.

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Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft