NASA’s reside hatch opening protection is underway on NASA+. Hatch opening is scheduled to start at 7:20 a.m. EDT.
The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft arrived on 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 roughly eight months aboard the orbital laboratory earlier than returning to Earth in December.
Study extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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