Discovery Brings 3 New Residents to Station

The space shuttle Discovery arrived at the international space station, bringing three new residents to the 240-mile-high outpost.

It was dropping off astronaut Frank Culbertson and his Russian crew for a four-month stay and picking up cosmonaut Yuri Usachev and his U.S. crew following a five-month stay.

Culbertson will move into the space station with Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin.

Discovery last visited the space station in March, on the last crew-exchange mission. That’s when Usachev, Jim Voss and Susan Helms became the second resident crew.