Contact -- Luca's Soyuz meets International Space Station
- 9 years ago
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and his crewmates NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin ended their six-hour space voyage when they arrived at the International Space Station at 02:10 GMT on 29 May.
They were welcomed to the orbital outpost by the crew already onboard: cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy.
The Volare mission will see Luca involved in over 20 scientific experiments two spacecraft dockings and two spacewalks.
They were welcomed to the orbital outpost by the crew already onboard: cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy.
The Volare mission will see Luca involved in over 20 scientific experiments two spacecraft dockings and two spacewalks.