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[b]Soyuz TMA-02M docks to the space station[/b] Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, NASA astronaut Mike Fossum and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday, docking Soyuz TMA-02M to the [i]Rassvet[/i] module at 4:18 p.m. CDT. The trio began their two-day journey to the orbiting laboratory after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:12 p.m. Tuesday (2:12 a.m. Wednesday, Kazakhstan time). Once hatches between the Soyuz and station are opened, Fossum, Volkov and Furukawa will join the station's residents, Expedition 28 commander Andrey Borisenko and flight engineers Ron Garan and Alexander Samokutyaev, who have been living and working on the outpost since April 6.
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