3 astronauts reach space station
From Times Wire Reports
A Soyuz craft carrying the international space station’s first female commander, American Peggy Whitson, veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Malaysia’s first space traveler, Sheik Muszaphar Shukor, docked at the orbital outpost after a two-day trip from Russia’s launch facility in Kazakhstan.
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