One-year crew captures moment spacecraft attaches to ISS

Friday, May 29, 2015, 2:35 PM - NASA recently released incredible time-lapse footage showing the Soyuz spacecraft docking to the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka launched on the first yearlong mission to the ISS on March 27. The trip lasted six hours after it left Earth from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

A 15-second video was posted to Instagram on Wednesday, showing the last 15 minutes of the Soyuz flight.

The Expedition 43 crew, which includes all three astronauts, is wrapping up the remodeling of the Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) at its new location on the forward port of the Tranquility module on the ISS, according to NASA. The station residents also participated in maintenance and experiments exploring the long-term effects of living in space on the human body.

NASA Astronaut Terry Virts, currently in command of the space station, captured a time-lapse video of the Canadarm2 rearranging the configuration of the ISS, to pave the way for the future of commercial spaceflight. Another recent video posted by Virts, depicts dozens of little thunderstorms popping up across Mexico from space.