The US space shuttle Endeavourhas docked with the International Space Station.
The two spacecraft linked up as they sailed 240 miles above the South Pacific.
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The space shuttle
Endeavourlifts off two days ago to begin Mission STS-111. Photo: Reuters - file
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Endeavour
was launched on Wednesday on a 13-day mission to bring a new crew to the orbital station and continue its construction.
US astronaut Mr Franklin Chang-Diaz, a space veteran on his seventh mission, and his French colleague Mr Philippe Perrin are to replace the wrist roll joint on the station's Canadian-made robotic arm.
They will also continue work on the arm's mobile base and install gutters to collect space debris during the three spacewalks planned for the mission, the 14th since the station first entered orbit in November 1998.
Space station Alpha’s Russian commander, Mr Yuri Onufrienko, and American astronauts Mr Carl Walz and Mr Daniel Bursch have lived aboard the orbiting outpost for six months.
AFP