About half an hour ago, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station, ferrying three new residents to the orbiting laboratory.
The Soyuz TMA-06 space capsule has delivered American astronaut, Kevin Ford, and Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, to their new home in orbit for the next five months.
The trio joined three other crew members already living aboard the station, doubling its population to its full six-person crew size. The three astronauts were launched into orbit on Tuesday atop a Soyuz rocket that lifted off from the Central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
They form half of the Expedition 33 crew on the ISS.
