Soyuz Docks With Iss Crew Awaits The Dragon

A Russian Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Joe Acaba and cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin docked with the international space station at 12:36 a.m. ET Thursday as the two spacecraft soared 249 miles above the border between Mongolia and Kazakhstan to start their four-month stay. The three new crew members join Expedition 31 crew members - NASA's Don Pettit, ESA Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko. The docking of the Soyuz to the station clears the way for launch of the new commercial cargo ship Dragon Saturday at 4:55 AM EDT, a critical test flight intended to pave the way for post-shuttle U.S. resupply missions. If successful, the SpaceX Dragon will conduct 12 contracted unmanned supply runs to the station over the next few years.

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