Cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on the International Space Station welcome the new arrivals ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and his crewmates NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin.
Their voyage to the Space Station lasted six hours and is the start of a six-month mission on the Space Station. The Volare mission will see Luca involved in over 20 scientific experiments two spacecraft dockings and two spacewalks.