, a spacecraft carrying a crew of three, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) at 2353 Thursday , after a technical setback prevented a planned rendezvous and docking on Tuesday. Soyuz TMA-12M launches from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. The spacecraft, which launched from the in Kazakhstan at 2117 UTC on Tuesday (3:17 AM, Wednesday local time), was originally scheduled to dock with the space station at 0304 UTC on Wednesday. It was not in the proper orientation to execute one of the engine burns required as part of the expedited rendezvous procedure used since last year, however, and docking with the ISS was delayed until Thursday . The mission reverted to the flight plan used on Soyuz flights to the ISS previously: a longer, two-day, 34-orbit rendezvous. Soyuz TMA-12M successfully docked with the station above at 2353 UTC on Thursday , with hatch opening between the two spacecraft occurring at 0235 UTC on Friday .
, a spacecraft carrying a crew of three, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) at 2353 yesterday , after a technical setback prevented a planned rendezvous and docking on Tuesday. Soyuz TMA-12M launches from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. The spacecraft, which launched from the in Kazakhstan at 2117 UTC on Tuesday (3:17 AM, Wednesday local time), was originally scheduled to dock with the space station at 0304 UTC on Wednesday. It was not in the proper orientation to execute one of the engine burns required as part of the expedited rendezvous procedure used since last year, however, and docking with the ISS was delayed until yesterday . The mission reverted to the flight plan used on Soyuz flights to the ISS previously: a longer, two-day, 34-orbit rendezvous. Soyuz TMA-12M successfully docked with the station above at 2353 UTC yesterday , with hatch opening between the two spacecraft occurring at 0235 UTC today .
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