Manned spacecraft "Soyuz MS-07" crew docked to the international space station (ISS) in automatic mode, said Last news Commissioner of the state Corporation " Roscosmos ".

arrived on the ISS Astronaut Anton shkaplerov, American Scott tingle and astronaut of the Japanese space Agency JAXA Norishige Kanae.

Kanae few days after arrival on orbit is going to treat partners of Japanese cuisine.

in February 2018 Shkaplerov and located on the ISS, Alexander Misurkin will have to go into space and the satellite system antenna "Beam" that works in space for almost seventeen years.

As planned, then on the Russian segment of the station will have their own communication line with the Ground, which won't depend on zones of radio visibility of the Russian ground tracking. The crew will be able to use the Internet, which currently accounts each time to "borrow" NASA.

in April 2017, the Russian ISS Crew was reduced from three to 2 persons. To return the same number of astronauts is expected in September 2018.

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