A Soyuz spacecraft brought three new crew members to the International Space Station early this morning.
The spacecraft carrying U.S. Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, a former shuttle pilot, and Russian Cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko docked with the orbiting outpost at 12:25 a.m.
The trio blasted off early Friday from Russia's storied Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic.
They are planning to live on the station until mid-September.
Soon they'll be joined by the crew of space shuttle Discovery, set to blast off from Kennedy Space Center at 6:21 a.m. Monday.
At about 9:30 a.m. this morning, the Rotating Service Structure that protects the shuttle will be rolled away. Fueling will begin later tonight.
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I can't find anything on Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson being a former shuttle pilot. From what I found, she was mission specialist on STS-118.
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