New crew and space tourist dock at ISS
Published 02 October, 2009, 15:38
The crew aboard the International Space Station is welcoming newcomers with the arrival of a capsule carrying a space tourist and two cosmonauts.
Russian Maxim Suraev and Jeffrey Williams from NASA will stay in orbit for half a year. Williams will be the first NASA astronaut to head a crew of six people aboard the station.
The third seat in the Soyuz spacecraft is taken up by Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte, the founder of the renowned Cirque du Soleil.
He will carry out his humanitarian mission in space and return to earth in eleven days together with the ISS crew who have been working in orbit since late March.
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