MISSION CONTROL (near Moscow), July 6 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station at 18:52 Moscow time (14:52 GMT) Thursday.
The shuttle delivered seven astronauts, including two women, to the station. Hatches will be opened between 16.03 and 16.48 GMT, and the newcomers will meet with the 13th expedition crew, Pavel Vinogradov and Jeffrey Williams.
A Mission Control source said the astronauts would make two spacewalks July 8 and July 10, and that a third spacewalk could take place July 12. In this event, the shuttle will return to Earth July 17 instead of July 16, he said.
Tuesday's launch of Shuttle Discovery was the second manned U.S. mission following the Columbia crash in February 2003.
