Soyuz MS-05 crew moves to ISS following docking
BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan. July 29 (Interfax) - The crew of the Soyuz-MS-05 manned spacecraft launched from Baikonur on July 28 has opened a transfer hatch and moved to the International Space Station (ISS) following the pressurization test of the docking and the pressure equalization between the spacecraft and the ISS, a representative of Russia's Mission Control Center told Interfax on Saturday.
"Hatches are open, the cosmonauts moved to the ISS," the representatives said.
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky, NASA astronaut Randolph Bresnik, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli arrived at the ISS. Roscosmos cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronauts Peggy Witson and Jack Fischer greeted them at the ISS.
The spacecraft lifted off from launch pad No. 1, the so-called Gagarin's Start, in the Baikonur at 6:41 p.m. Moscow time on July 28. It is Ryazansky's and Bresnik's second expedition to the station, and the third one for Nespoli already. The newly arrived crew is expected to spend 139 days at the ISS.
