Astronauts from Russia, the US and Japan dock at the International Space Station

Less than six hours after take-off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome, the three astronauts Kjell Lindgren from the US, Kimiya Yui of Japan and Oleg Kononenko of Russia have safely arrived at the International Space Station. For Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui, it is their first time in orbit. The Japanese astronaut had brought along some sushi as a treat for the others.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 23 July 2015.

Since the US has already retired its Space Shuttle operation in 2011, the only option for manned flights to the ISS is by use of Russia's ageing Soviet space technology. This flight was to have taken place earlier but had to be postponed due to failure of the launch of the cargo rocket.
The three astronauts were supposed to have taken off in May but Moscow had to delay the flight after the 28 April crash. That was when an unmanned Soyuz cargo rocket failed to reach the station and burned up in the atmosphere before it crashed back to Earth.
The International Space Station is located about 400-Km above planet Earth.
The new team has joined up with the existing ISS crew of Russians Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly from the US to make up the 6-member team.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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