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New crew of Expedition 40 arrives aboard the ISS (VIDEO)

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - The docking with the orbiting laboratory occurred at 2:44 am GMT/UTC

Three new Expedition 40 crew members were welcomed aboard the International Space Station when the hatches between their Soyuz spacecraft and the station were opened at 4:52 am GMT/UTC on Thursday 29 May 2014. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Max Suraev of Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency and Alexander Gerst, German astronaut of the European Space Agency, are slated to spend 166 days aboard...

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Rome, Italy, 05/29/2014 09:31
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