The Russian Soyuz reached the ISS. The new crew will stay there for four months – TVP Info

Start of spacecraft ” Soyuz MS-02 occurred on Wednesday. Originally was to be held on September 23, but was postponed due to technical problems.

Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryżykow and Andrei Borisenko, and American astronaut Shane Kimbrough will replace on MKS the American Kate Rubins, Russian Anatoly Iwaniszyna and Japanese Takuyę Onishiego, whose return to Earth is scheduled for October 29.

Kimbrough, Ryżykow and Borisenko will carry to the ISS a little over four months; they will return at the end of February 2017.

international space station ISS

the international Space Station the first space station, built with the participation of many countries. Currently consists of 11 core modules and allows both to be from three to six members of the permanent crew.

the First modules of the station was lifted into orbit and connected to each other in the late 90-ies. The first was the team settled on it in 2000. Source power stations are solar panels, transportation of people and materials involved in the us Shuttle program, STS and Russian space ships “Soyuz” and “Progress”.