A Russian capsule carrying three astronauts has docked with the International Space Station. The crew's patch for the expedition echoes the one from Apollo 11's lunar mission 50 years ago to the day.
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station , gestures to his relatives from a bus prior the launch of Soyuz MS-13 space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Saturday, July 20, 2019.
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian space capsule with three astronauts aboard has docked with the International Space Station after a fast-track trip to the orbiting laboratory. The Soyuz capsule docked at 22:48 GMT Saturday, just six hours and 20 minutes after blasting off from Russia’s launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.The capsule is carrying Andrew Morgan of the United States on his first spaceflight, Russian Alexander Skvortsov on his third mission to the space station and Italian Luca Parmitano.
They will join Russian Alexey Ovchinin and Americans Nick Hague and Christina Koch have been aboard since March.This story has been corrected to show the last name of the Russian cosmonaut in space since March is Ovchinin, not Ovechkin.
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