The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station off the Atlantic coast of Africa.
The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky approaches the International Space Station off the Atlantic coast of Africa.
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NASA’s live hatch opening coverage is underway on NASA+. Hatch opening is scheduled to begin at 7:20 a.m. EDT.

The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft arrived at the orbiting laboratory’s Prichal module at 4:57 a.m., after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:47 a.m. on April 8 (10:47 a.m. Baikonur time) with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky.

The trio will spend approximately eight months aboard the orbital laboratory before returning to Earth in December.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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