Cosmonaut Yurchikhin and astronaut Fisher went to the ISS

Cosmonaut Yurchikhin and astronaut Fisher went to the ISS

Moscow. April 20. INTERFAX.RU — the Crew of the next expedition, landed on the ship of a new modification of “Soyuz MS-04”, came on Board the International space station, the correspondent of “Interfax” from the cosmodrome “Baikonur”.

“The transfer hatches between the spacecraft and station opened,” said the speaker on the speakerphone.

The vehicle docking with the research module Rassvet of the ISS was made on the six-hour program in automatic mode.

The spacecraft delivered to ISS reduced to a two-man crew consisting of Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and U.S. astronaut Jack Fischer.

On the space provided for the third crew member, the ISS went cargo of food weighing 70 kg.

The planned duration of the expedition is 136 days.

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