March 15, 2019
Categories: ISS, Soyuz

The crew of the “Soyuz MS-12” spacecraft on March 15, 2019, at 06:10 Moscow time, went on board of the International Space Station (ISS).

Members of the ISS-59 expedition – Oleg Kononenko (Roscosmos, Russia), Alexey Ovchinin (Roscosmos, Russia), Anne McClain (NASA, USA), Nick Hague (NASA, USA), Christina Koch (NASA, USA) and David Saint – Jacques (CSA, Canada) began work on board the station.

The “Soyuz-FG” launch vehicle with the “Soyuz MS-12” spacecraft, that delivered the Russian-American crew to the ISS, was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on March 14, 2019 at 22:14 Moscow time.

The docking in the automatic mode was made on March 15, 2019 at 04:02 Moscow time after the ship approached the station according to the four-turn scheme.

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