Soyuz Launches Crew to the ISS
After Month Long Delay Soyuz Rocket Launches Astronauts to the International Space Station [With video]
“Three crew members representing the United States and Russia are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:05 a.m. EDT Wednesday (2:05 p.m. Baikonur time). The Soyuz spacecraft carrying astronaut Shane Kimbrough of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, is scheduled to dock to the Poisk module of the space station at 5:59 a.m. Friday, Oct. 21. NASA Television coverage of docking will begin at 5:15 a.m. Hatches are scheduled to open about 8:35 a.m., with NASA TV coverage starting at 8 a.m.”
– ISS Crew Could be Short Staffed for Another Month and a Half, earlier post
SpaceX plans to eventually launch crews to the ISS. An uncrewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for July, 2017.
Can a Shenzhou dock with ISS? The Soyuz designs were sold to China, and some of the Shenzhou hardware appears to be similar. Does that extend to a compatible docking system?