BAIKONUR. Sept 13 (Interfax) - The crew of the Soyuz MS-06 manned spaceship launched from Baikonur on Wednesday has checked the docking airtightness, balanced pressure in the spaceship and the International Space Station (ISS), opened the hatch, and crossed into the station, a Roscosmos spokesman told Interfax.
"The hatches were opened, and the crew crossed into the ISS," the spokesman said.
Crew commander Alexander Misurkin of Russia and flight engineers Mark Vande Hei and Joseph Acaba of NASA arrived at the station.
Their journey lasted for approximately six hours.