US, Russian, Japanese crew arrive at ISS

Three astronauts from the US, Japan and Russia arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, a NASA TV broadcast showed. The crew includes Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Russia’s Roscosmos, as well as flight engineers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Scott Tingle of NASA. They docked their Soyuz spacecraft at 8.39am GMT, Reuters reports.