The spacecraft Russian Soyuz TMA-20, carrying the crew of the international space station (ISS) astronaut of NASA Catherine Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, explosions from its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome on December 16, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Sergei RemezovMOSCOW | 17 December 2010 4: 35 pm EST
Moscow (Reuters) - while docked with the international space station Friday shuttle carrying astronauts from the United States, Italy Russia successfully, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
Soyuz TMA-20 arrived two days after blasting from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe. Thursday, space Russian control lost contact with the spacecraft for several hours.
"The approach and berthing of the vessel with the station was carried out under the supervision of the Centre space command," said the statement on the site Web de Roscosmos www.roscosmos.ru.
Docking offer astronaut of the NASA Catherine Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and Paolo Nespoli Space Agency International, European, of the Italy to the space station a $ 100 billion project organized by 16 countries.
He has been building 220 miles above the Earth since 1998.
The Russian news agency Interfax was late Thursday space command center that Putin had lost contact with the spacecraft, but started that information of the boat was flowing back hours later.
The Soyuz flight is one of the last before the United States withdrew its reusable space shuttles leaving astronauts entirely dependent on Russian crafts for missions to the ISS.
(Statement by Thomas Grove, editing by Tim Pearce)
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