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[b]Soyuz TMA-05M docks with the space station[/b] Flying under automated control, Russia's Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft docked at the International Space Station's (ISS) Rassvet module at 11:51 p.m. CDT on Monday, July 16 (0451 GMT July 17) while flying over northeast Kazakhstan 252 miles below. "Everything is perfect," Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko radioed to Russia's Mission Control Center in Korolev, just outside Moscow, describing the docking. After the hatches between the Soyuz and space station were opened, Expedition 32 commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineers Joe Acaba and Sergei Revin welcomed aboard the TMA-05M crewmates, Malenchenko, Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide, for their 5-month stay on the orbiting complex. This marks Malenchenko's third long-duration stay aboard the station, after commanding Expedition 7 and serving as an Expedition 16 flight engineer, and Williams' second, after serving as an Expedition 14/15 flight engineer. This is Hoshide's first expedition on board the station. The Soyuz TMA-05M docking coincided with the 37th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking in 1975, which marked the first time international spacecraft joined in orbit.
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