New ISS crew spent applause to the "Soyuz TMA-10M" - Reuters

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RIA Novosti.

rocket “Soyuz-FG” with the spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-10M” was launched with the first (“Gagarin”) site Baikonur cosmodrome. On board the ship – the crew of a new expedition to the International Space Station: Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazan, and NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins.

new expedition, like the previous two, went to the station on the “short” a six-hour scheme. At 01.08 MSK spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-10M” successfully separated from the third stage rocket “Soyuz-FG”. And in 05.33 MSK “Union” docked to the space station. Joining in the automatic mode.

At the ISS astronauts will perform three spacewalks. During the first Russians Kotov and Ryazan will make the Olympic torch.