The Russian Soyuz-TMA spacecraft successfully docked in automatic mode earlier on Wednesday and brought to the station space tourist Anousheh Ansari, 40, a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin, NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin.
The new Russian-U.S. crew will replace Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams, who have been on the station since April.
The outgoing crew will take the Iranian-American telecommunications businesswoman, who paid $20 million for the tour, back to Earth in late September.
The new crew is scheduled to meet two U.S. shuttles at the ISS, to unload two Russian Progress cargo ships and to perform four spacewalks.
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