The newly-expanded Expedition 72 crew gathers for a ceremony welcoming (from row from left) NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskoy.
The newly-expanded Expedition 72 crew gathers for a ceremony welcoming (front row, from left) NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskoy.
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At 7:28 a.m. EDT, the hatch opened between the International Space Station and the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft.

The spacecraft arrived at the orbiting laboratory’s Prichal module at 4:57 a.m. EDT on April 8, after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:47 a.m. (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 space station 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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