After launching earlier in the day in their Soyuz TMA15M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 42/43 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Terry Virts and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency arrived at the International Space Station on November 24 following a fourorbit, sixhour rendezvous. They docked their craft to the Rassvet module on the Russian segment of the complex.