New Crew Docks to Station Aboard Soyuz Spacecraft

At 4:57 a.m. EDT, the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft docked to the Worldwide House Station’s Prichal module. NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky launched at 1:47 a.m. on April 8 (10:47 a.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Hatch opening is scheduled for 7:20 a.m. with NASA’s dwell protection resuming at 7 a.m. on NASA+. Learn to watch NASA content material by way of quite a lot of platforms.

As soon as aboard, the trio will be part of Expedition 72, together with NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, and Don Pettit, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, Kirill Peskov, and Ivan Vagner. The newly arrived crew members will spend roughly eight months aboard the orbital laboratory, returning to Earth in December.

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April 8, 2025