Science and Exploration

Soyuz TMA-15M and Progress 57 Docked to the Space Station

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
January 17, 2015
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Soyuz TMA-15M and Progress 57 Docked to the Space Station
Soyuz TMA-15M and Progress 57
NASA

Soyuz TMA-15M and Progress 57 are shown attached to the International Space Station in January 2015.
This image shows the the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft on the left attached to the Rassvet module on the Earth-facing port of the Russian segment of the station that delivered Expedition 42 crewmembers Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Terry Virts of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency on Nov. 24, 2014 , and to the right, the unpiloted ISS Progress 57 cargo craft that is docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment and which arrived at the station a month earlier on Oct. 29, 2014.

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