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Soyuz arrives at station 50 years after first space rendezvous by Gemini [i]Fifty years ago, two spacecraft met in orbit, achieving the world's first rendezvous between two piloted vehicles. On Tuesday (Dec. 15), two more spacecraft did the same, but as a matter of course, underscoring the progress made in the past half century of human spaceflight. At 11:33 a.m. CST (1733 GMT), just about six hours after it launched, Russia's Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft pulled up alongside the International Space Station, bringing a three member crew to the orbiting outpost. It was the 45th time a Soyuz had caught up with the space station and the tenth expedited rendezvous after orbiting the Earth four times. The space capsule to space station meeting coincided with the 50th anniversary of the first-ever rendezvous between NASA's Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 spacecraft.[/i]
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