Soyuz Delivers New Crew to Space Station

Three new crew members arrived Tuesday afternoon, December 15, at the International Space Station as Commander Yuri Malenchenko manually docked Soyuz after an automated docking attempt was aborted. Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency were with Malenchenko as the craft docked.

Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Flight Engineers Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are already on board the station. Credit: YouTube/NASA