ISS Crew Prepares for Soyuz Docking

Aboard the International Space Station, Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka continued preparations Tuesday for the arrival of three additional Expedition 26 crew members set to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 on Dec. 15 (Dec. 15, Baikonur time).Kaleri and Skripochka tested the passive side of the Kurs automated rendezvous system on the Zvezda service module Tuesday, which the Soyuz will use to update its naviga [...]

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