“The spacecraft brought a new crew to the ISS. They are [Russian] Roscosmos’s cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, NASA’s astronaut Peggy Whitson and European space agency (ESA)’s Thomas Pesquet,” RIA Novosti reported, citing a source at the Russian Mission Control Center.
The trio arrived more than two days after their liftoff from Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. The greeting ceremony onboard the station is expected to be aired at 11:55 GMT – tune in to RT.com to watch it live.
Soyuz spacecraft with French-Russian-US trio docks with ISS
20 November 2016
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The international crew of three, which is part of Expedition 50/51 to the International Space Station (ISS), has successfully docked with the station in a Russian Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft.
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