Soyuz Docks to Station, Hatches Open Soon for Crew Greeting

Soyuz Docks to Station, Hatches Open Soon for Crew Greeting
At 1:52 p.m. EDT, the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station’s Prichal module. NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina launched earlier at 10:47 a.m. (7:47 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Hatch opening is scheduled for about 4 p.m. NASA’s live coverage will begin at 3:30 p.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media.
Once aboard, the trio will join NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Chris Williams; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot; and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Sergei Mikaev, and Andrey Fedyaev. The newly arrived crew members will spend about eight months aboard the orbital laboratory before returning to Earth in April 2027.
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