Replay the Soyuz docking and hatch opening

The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft docked this evening with the International Space Station carrying ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and his crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman. They will stay in orbit now for six months and return to Earth next May.

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and his crewmates aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft docked with the ISS at 21:12 CET and entered the Station about 3 hours later, at 00:05 CET (below).

ESA PR 30-2010 ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is on his way to the International Space Station with crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman aboard their Soyuz spacecraft following liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:09:25 CET today.