At 1:52 p.m. EDT, the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft docked with the Worldwide House 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 dwell protection will start at 3:30 p.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the company’s YouTube channel. Learn to watch NASA content material by means of quite a lot of on-line platforms, together with social media.
As soon as aboard, the trio will be a part of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Chris Williams; ESA (European House Company) 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 earlier than returning to Earth in April 2027.
Be taught extra about station actions by following @NASASpaceOps and @space_station on X, in addition to the Worldwide House Station’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.
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