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On 29 September 2011 a second space station joined the ISS in low Earth orbit, albeit on a different trajectory. This was the Chinese Tiangong-1. It would soon be visited by both crewed and uncrewed spacecraft.
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He would command the ISS for a fourth time during Expedition 44 in June 2015.
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At the time of writing, 6 years later, Nauka has yet to be launched.
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A Dragon capsule had already berthed at the ISS on 25 May 2012. By agreement with NASA, this C2+ mission combined a Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Demonstration Flight with a full rendezvous and berthing operation.
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O’Sullivan, J. (2019). Soyuz TMA-05M, Expeditions 32 and 33. In: Japanese Missions to the International Space Station. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04534-0_11
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