Expedition 44 Crew Docks To The International Space Station

After launching earlier in the day in their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency arrived at the International Space Station on July 23 following a four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous. They docked their craft to the Rassvet module on the Russian segment of the complex.