A spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American has docked at the International Space Station [ISS]. <br /><br />The Soyuz crew were staking their lives on an automated docking system after a string of technical failures had raised major questions about Russia's space programme.<br /><br />It is the first flight to the ISS since NASA retired its space shuttles earlier this year and the Soyuz spacecraft is now the only means of reaching the space station.<br /><br />Japan's Satoshi Furukawa, Mike Fossum from the US, and Russia's Sergei Volkov will return home in December, while the new crew members will stay until March.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports.
