Soyuz Capsule Honoring Yuri Gagarin Docks With International Space Station

A Soyuz capsule carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei docked at 1105 GMT, footage broadcasted by NASA TV showed.

A three-man crew docked at the international Space Station Friday after a flight honouring the 60th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person in space. Contact and capture! #SoyuzMS18 crewed spacecraft docked successfully to the Russian segment of the International @Space_Station, making it in just two orbits around the Earth!Welcome to the ISS, @novitskiy_iss, Pyotr and @Astro_Sabot! pic.twitter.com/XDqresKbmD A Soyuz capsule carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei docked at 1105 GMT, footage broadcasted by NASA TV showed.  "There is contact!" Russia's space agency Roscosmos wrote on Twitter.