MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- A Russian spaceship carrying three astronauts docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday evening after hurtling two days in space.

The Soyuz TMA-11 ship, which streaked into the sky over the Central Asian steppe on Wednesday with a two-man crew of the ISS and a Malaysian astronaut, hooked up with the space station at 18:50, Moscow time (1450 GMT), the Mission Control outside Moscow said.