A Russian Soyuz spaceship carrying three travelers docked with the International Space Station, meaning that the station crew size for the first time was doubled to six people from the prior limit of three. It was the United States that financed most of the $100 billion space station and provided the space shuttles that alone possessed the brawn to haul huge station structural components to orbit. But a Russian component, Zarya, was the first segment of the station to be…
Russian Soyuz Vehicle Docks With Space Station, Doubling Its Crew Size To Six People For First Time; One More Example Of A Rising Russian Role
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