Spacecraft Docks At Orbiting Space Station

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts has successfully docked with the International Space Station.

American astronaut Michael Hopkins and two Russian colleagues traveled six hours in the capsule from a launch pad in Kazakhstan before linking up with the space station's Russian research module, and joining a three-person crew already there.

The new crew's six-month mission will include a spacewalk with an unlit Olympic torch in November.