WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The International Space Station welcomed its first female cosmonaut yesterday. Russian Yelena Serova arrived along with two colleagues after a six-hour trip aboard Russia's Soyuz spacecraft. After blasting off from Kazakistan, Serova became just the fourth Russian woman in space.
Serova was joined by two space station veterans, NASA's Barry Wilmore and the Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev. The crew will spend six months together aboard the space station.