A Soyuz TMA-18 piloted spacecraft with a...
The spacecraft has delivered members of ISS Expedition 23 - Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and U.S. astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson - to the orbital station.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi are currently working on board the ISS.
The Soyuz TMA-18 piloted spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Friday.
The ISS was successfully moved to a higher orbit on March 24 to facilitate the docking of the Soyuz craft with the station.
The TMA-18 mission is the 105th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft since the start of the program in 1967.
During their six-month orbital mission, the crewmembers of the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft will oversee the docking of three NASA space shuttles and three Russia"s Progress M freighters and perform two spacewalks from the U.S. and Russian segments of the world sole orbiter.