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[b]Soyuz TMA-20 docks at the space station[/b] Soyuz TMA-20 arrived at the International Space Station with three new crew members for Expedition 26. The docking to the to the Rassvet mini-research module occurred at 2:11 p.m. CST (2011 GMT) as the space station flew over western Africa at an altitude of 224 miles. Hatches between the two craft are scheduled to be opened around 5 p.m., when Roscosmos cosmonaut Dmitry "Dima" Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Catherine "Cady" Coleman and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli will join Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly and flight engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka as members of the station's crew.
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