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Soyuz Spacecraft Links Up with ISS

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Watch this video about the ISS and the Soyuz spacecraft on HowStuffWorks. NASA's Peggy Whitson, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, an orthopedic surgeon and part-time model from Malaysia, were greeted by the existing team on the ISS. Learn about some of the complex outer parts of the ISS and how docking works in this news video from Reuters.

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