Atlantis was last fastened to the ISS

The American ATLANTIS reusable ship with four astronauts on Sunday moored to the International Space Station (ISS), the head of the press service of the Russian Center for Flight Management (TsUP, Korolev) Valery Lyndin told Interfax .

"The docking is performed in manual mode. The transitional hatches between Atlantis and the station will be open about two hours after checking the tightness," Lyndin said.

The Atlantis shuttle, which completes his biography, went on the last flight of July 8 from the Kennedy space center in Florida. The crew of the ship includes commander Christopher Ferguson, Pilot Douglas Herli and flight specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim. The pilot went into space for the second time, the rest - on the third.

The mission will last 12 days. He delivered 3.9 tons of cargo to the ISS in the Rafaello multi -purpose module. An experimental refueling system for fuel satellites in orbit was also brought to the station, and the shuttle will return the faulty block of pumps from the ISS to Earth. At the ISS, Shattl is greeted by the crew of the 28th expedition as part of the commander Andrei Borisenko and Bortinzhenerov Alexander Samokutyaeva, Ronald Garan, Sergey Volkov, Satoshi Furukawa and Michael Fossum.

On July 12, NASA A guarantee and phossum astronauts will make a 6.5-hour exit to the open space for transferring a faulty block of pumps from the ESP-2 platform to the ATLANTIS cargo compartment and transportation of the experimental refueling system to the “dexterous” DEXTR manipulator, as well as the deployment of the MISSE-8 experiment equipment on the platform ELC-2.

The ATLANTIS Sensation from the ISS is scheduled for July 18. Two days after that, he will land in Florida.

This space flight has become for Atlantis of the 33rd and the last. After him, Shattl is planned to be given to the exhibition complex of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.