Recently a Soyuz launch on 19th October 2016.. Expedition 49/50 crew launch to journey towards the “International Space Station” in which travelling on a Soyuz MS-02 rocket with a Soyuz-FG variant configuration, with Soyuz Commander Cosmonaut with two more onboard Cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos also NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough as part of the Expedition 49/50. While Launching at 0805 GMT with a two day orbital interception journey towards the International Space Station so it can test its Various Systems of the new MS-02 rocketry systems….
Launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five month mission on various experiments mission types on the International Space Station arriving after a two day docking with the station’s Poisk module…
After least than two days, the Expedition 49/50 crew on the Soyuz MS-02 arrived slightly ahead of schedule to Dock at the International Space Station on 21st October 2016, as you see during the docking operations with the mating of the Soyuz MS-02 Module as is uses it Maneuverable retro thrusters, to correctly align itself with the docking Poisk module as brought itself out from a fly around mode as was at a distance of least 200 meter away from the International Space Station.. as this docking was done overheard of coast South Africa then the final docking over the Italy…..