Last-minute glitch, but British astronaut Tim Peake docks with space station
by Ian Sample Science editor from on (#XRBN)
Failure of automatic docking system gives hair-raising end to otherwise perfect voyage for Peake and crewmates to ISS
Britain's first European Space Agency astronaut, Tim Peake, has docked with the International Space Station after a tense, last minute glitch with the Soyuz spacecraft forced the crew to make an unusual manual approach to the orbiting outpost.
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