The spacecraft Yu.A. Gagarin (Soyuz MS-18) with the help of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle docked to the International Space Station. This was announced by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.
– There is touch and contraction. Congratulations! – he wrote on his Twitter.
Judging by the broadcast of the state corporation, the docking was carried out in automatic mode to the Rassvet module.
As a reminder, on April 9, 10:42 Moscow time, the manned spacecraft Yu. A. Gagarin (Soyuz MS-18) was launched on the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Two Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Petr Dubrov, as well as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hai, are heading to the International Space Station (ISK).
The launch is carried out on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the flight into orbit of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The name of the cosmonaut adorns the surface of the screen-vacuum thermal insulation of the spacecraft's utility compartment.
