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New residents have arrived at the International Space Station after a Soyuz spacecraft capped a two-day trip with an early docking at the orbiting outpost.
Soyuz commander Gennady Padalka took manual control of the spaceship about 200 meters away from the outpost and deftly guided the vehicle to a docking port on the aft end of the Zvezda Service module as both craft flew 218 miles above central Kazakhstan.
Padalka, American astronaut Michael Barratt and billionaire software developer Charles Simonyi ariived nine minutes early. They launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday.
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