Two days after departing from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the TMA-8 Soyuz spacecraft transporting the new crew and Brazil's first astronaut arrived at the International Space Station.
About 1 1/2 hours after the docking, the air locks were opened and Williams, Vinogradov and Pontes floated into the station.
The current crew Russian Valery Tokarev and American Bill McArthur, will return to Earth with Brazilian Marcos Pontes on April 9.
Images courtesy of NASA. Left Image: Soyuz spacecraft arrives at the international space station. Right Image: Soyuz spacecraft (at center) carrying Expedition 13 is shown just moments after docking to the space station.
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