Soyuz TMA-20 arriving at Space Station

Soyuz TMA-20 arriving at Space Station on 17 December at 21:12 CET with ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Soyuz commander Dmitri Kondratyev and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman.

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.