NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov arrived on the Worldwide Area Station on Sunday, because the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the orbiting advanced at 12:04 a.m. EDT, whereas the station was roughly 260 statute miles over the Atlantic Ocean.
Following Dragon’s hyperlink as much as the forward-facing port of the station’s Concord module, the crew members aboard Dragon and the house station will start conducting commonplace leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft and the station in preparation for hatch opening scheduled for roughly 1:45 a.m. on Sunday.
Crew-10 will be a part of the Expedition 72 crew of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Don Petitt, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner. The variety of crew aboard the house station will enhance to 11 individuals earlier than Crew-9 members Hague, Williams, Wilmore, and Gorbunov return to Earth following the crew handover interval.
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