Live connection to the mission control after the ingress

Son of the Soyuz commander Dmitri Kondratyev talking to his father during the during the short live event after opening the hatches between the International Space Station and Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on 18 December at 00.05 CET. Kondratyev, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman joined ISS Expedition 26 crew Alexander Kaleri, Scott Kelly and Oleg Skripochka at Space Station on 17 December at 21:12 CET and the ingress happened at 00:05 CET.

They were launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December at 20:09 CET. Paolo’s MagISStra mission will be Europe’s third long-duration mission on the ISS. Between December 2010 and June 2011 he will be part of the ISS crew as a flight engineer.