The crew of the manual craft Soyuz MS-03 opened the transfer hatch and boarded the International Space Station.

      The new crew consists of Oleg Novitsky from Russia, Peggy Whitson from America and Tom Peske (the European Space Agency) from France. They were met at the ISS by the Russians Andrey Borisenko and Sergey Ryzhikov, and the NASA astronaut,  Robert Shane Kimbrough.

      The spacecraft Soyuz MS-03 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 17 and successfully docked the International Space Station took place earlier on Sunday .