A NASA astronaut and two Cosmonauts arrived finally at the International Space Station two days later than originally planned.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Mr. Steve Swanson and Soviet Cosmonauts Mr. Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev docked with the orbiting ISS at 7:53 PM EDT ( 23:53 GMT) on Thursday, March, 27, 2014.
The three crew members blasted off on Tuesday afternoon ( March 25, 2014) and expected to arrive six hours later. But there was a failure in the Soyuz to complete one of the automated burns required to pull off this "fast track" trip, forcing mission controllers to revert to a more traditional two-day chase and rendezvous.
NASA officials said that all the systems on board Soyuz were functioning normally. Arrival of these three crew members brings the space station back up to its full complement of six crew members. The new crew members join the NASA's Rick Mastracchio, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Mr. Steve Swanson and Soviet Cosmonauts Mr. Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev docked with the orbiting ISS at 7:53 PM EDT ( 23:53 GMT) on Thursday, March, 27, 2014.
The three crew members blasted off on Tuesday afternoon ( March 25, 2014) and expected to arrive six hours later. But there was a failure in the Soyuz to complete one of the automated burns required to pull off this "fast track" trip, forcing mission controllers to revert to a more traditional two-day chase and rendezvous.
NASA officials said that all the systems on board Soyuz were functioning normally. Arrival of these three crew members brings the space station back up to its full complement of six crew members. The new crew members join the NASA's Rick Mastracchio, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin.
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