Published on April 29, 2017
After launching earlier in the day in their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 42/43 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Terry Virts and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency arrived at the International Space Station on November 24 following a four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous. They docked their craft to the Rassvet module on the Russian segment of the complex.