聯盟號飛船與國際空間站完成對接
運載意大利首位
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Italy's first female astronaut has safely docked with the International Space Station.
The U.S. space agency NASA said Samantha Cristoforetti, along with Russians Anton Shkaplerov and American Terry Virts arrived at the space station Monday nearly six hours after taking off from Russia's space facility in Kazakhstan. They will remain on the station until May.
The Russian news agency Itar Tass says the astronauts brought 15 30-gram cans of caviar to the station to use in the New Year's celebration on the station.
The newly arrived astronauts are joining three other astronauts, one American, Barry Wilmore, and two Russians, Alexander Samoukutyaev and Elena Serova, already on the space station.
Since the retirement of the U.S. space shuttle fleet in 2011, Russian Soyuz spacecraft have served as the only means to ferry crew to and from the space outpost.女宇航員的俄羅斯聯盟號飛船與國際空間站安全對接。
美國航天局說，聯盟號飛船從哈薩克斯坦的一個俄羅斯宇航中心升空後，經過將近6小時飛行，運載意大利宇航員克里斯托弗雷蒂、俄羅斯宇航員施卡普列羅夫和美國宇航員弗茨飛抵國際空間站。他們將在空間站駐留到明年5月。
俄羅斯伊塔爾塔斯社說，宇航員們攜帶15罐魚子醬到空間站，用來慶祝新年。
此前國際空間站上已有一名美國宇航員巴瑞·威爾默和兩名俄羅斯宇航員，亞歷山大·薩莫庫佳耶夫和葉琳娜·謝羅娃。
自美國航天飛機2011年退役後，俄羅斯聯盟號飛船獨自肩負了在地球和國際空間站之間運送宇航員的任務。
