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Soyuz TMA-22 docks on the International Space Station (VIDEO)

Moscow, Russia - Three crew members will remain on board for 124 days

The piloted TMA-22 space shuttle took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan last November 14, and docked on the ISS (International Space Station orbiting) successfully at 9.24am Moscow time, today, with nine minutes before schedule. Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and the American Daniel Burbank of NASA are on board, and will rotate with the Russian engineer Sergei...

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Rome, Italy, 11/16/2011 14:29
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