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Russian space capsule with three astronauts docks at the International Space Station

The Soyuz capsule docked at 22:48 GMT Saturday, just six hours and 20 minutes after blasting off from Russia.

|Jul 21, 2019, 14:06:27 IST

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The Soyuz spacecraft from Roscosmos docked to an International Space Station module in June, 2018. Image courtesy: Flickr[/caption]The Soyuz capsule docked at 22:48 GMT Saturday, just six hours and 20 minutes after blasting off from Russia’s launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.The launch took place on the 50th anniversary of the day U.S. astronauts landed on the moon.The capsule is carrying Andrew Morgan of the United States on his first spaceflight, Russian Alexander Skvortsov on his third mission to the space station and Italian Luca Parmitano.They will join Russian Alexey Ovchinin and Americans Nick Hague and Christina Koch have been aboard since March.The crew patch for the expedition echoes the one from Apollo 11′s 1969 lunar mission.

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