WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The spacecraft carrying three people docked Saturday with the International Space Station (ISS), according to a NASA Television broadcast.
Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, 54, and U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly, 51, are to spend 342 days aboard the orbiting laboratory, about twice as long as a standard mission on the station.
Russia's cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, 56, is expected to stay for a six months at the ISS.
The spacecraft docked about six hours after launching from Russia's manned space facility in Kazakhstan.
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