It was second time lucky on Tuesday as an unmanned
spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot into orbit docked at the
International Space Station following a failed attempt over the weekend.
Copying human movements and designed to help with high-risk tasks, the lifesize robot named Fedor is due to stay on the ISS until September 7.
Soyuz capsules are normally manned on such trips, but this time no humans were travelling in order to test a new emergency rescue system.