Soyuz Spaceship Docks in Orbit
MOSCOW — A Soyuz TM-7 spacecraft carrying a joint Soviet-French team docked today with the Mir orbiting space station, the Tass press agency said.
Soviet cosmonauts Alexander Volkov and Sergei Krikalev, and Frenchman Jean-Loup Chretien joined up with the three Soviets aboard the Mir, and are all feeling well, Tass said. Volkov, Krikalev and Chretien blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Central Asia on Saturday, with French President Francois Mitterrand on hand to watch. Chretien is to return to Earth on Dec. 21 with cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov, who will be completing a full year in orbit.
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