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[COMMENTATOR] You’re looking at a view from
an external television camera of the International

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Space Station to the engineering cross-haired
black and white camera on the outside of the

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TMA-03M.

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Now just two km away, soon to begin its fly-around
for a precise alignment and a few minutes

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of stationkeeping to enable Russian flight
controllers to precisely assess the alignment

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of the forward docking probe on the Soyuz
with the Rassvet module.

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[RUSSIAN]

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[TRANSLATOR] We have fly-around.

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Okay, Andre.

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10 R 5 1.

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R 5 1.

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[COMMENTATOR] And as you can hear through
the translation from the crew members onboard

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the Soyuz, the fly-around of the International
Space Station has begun.

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This is expected to be about a six-minute
procedure to align the Soyuz with the Rassvet

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module, It will also conduct a roll maneuver
that will align its solar arrays in a non-interference

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mode with the docking port on the Earth-facing
side of the Zarya module.

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[TRANSLATOR] Range is zero eight zero,

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zero five seven is range rate.

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We’re currently rotating…

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[COMMENTATOR] A pretty portrait of Northwest
Africa, as the Soyuz orbits at an altitude

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of 249 statute miles, beginning its roll program
to orient its solar arrays in the proper attitude

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for the station keeping and then its final
approach for docking to the Rassvet module.

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The fly-around continuing at this hour.

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[TRANSLATOR] Go ahead.

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Anton we have [inaudible] on the vehicle.

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[COMMENTATOR] The visiting vehicle officer
confirms that final approach has now been

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initiated on computer command.

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[TRANSLATOR] [inaudible] station keeping just
in case so you, but do not send it.

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Andre, open the approach, approach rate,

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press zero, zero again, four, and put the
arrow on station keeping but do not send it.

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Just make sure that the arrow points to station
keeping.

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Okay the arrow’s pointing to station keeping.

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[COMMENTATOR] Soyuz and the International
Space Station flying over the Mediterranean,

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about to cross the western coast of Italy,
passing just to the south of Rome.

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[RUSSIAN]

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[COMMENTATOR] This television from the Soyuz
now over Russian ground stations, 20 meters

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away.

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[TRANSLATOR] The range rate is zero… zero
one five.

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[COMMENTATOR] You can see the cross-haired
camera as the Kurs system brings the docking

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probe into alignment with the docking target,
and now just seven meters away from docking,

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standing by for contact and capture of the
International Space Station.

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[TRANSLATOR] Zero one one range rate.

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The target is in the center.

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Zero one one range rate.

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Expecting contact.

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We have contact.

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We have capture.

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We have…

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[COMMENTATOR] Docking confirmed at 9:19 a.m.

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Central time over Southern Russia.

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Docking confirmed.

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The Soyuz slides down the chimney of the International
Space Station with an early Christmas present