KOROLEV (Sputnik) — Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko, along with US Astronaut Shane Kimbrough, took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and docked with the Poisk module earlier on Friday.
"The hatches have been opened, the cosmonauts got on board the ISS," a mission control official told RIA Novosti.
Other remaining launches in 2016 include the Soyuz MS-03 manned spacecraft launch on November 16 and the Progress MS-04 space freighter launch on December 1.