New Russian cosmonaut team safely arrives at the International Space Station

The flight lasted about 3 hours and 10 minutes after spaceship Soyuz carrying new cosmonauts took off from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 18.

According to NASA, the arrival to the International Space Station, confirmed at 19:13 GMT, took place while the Soyuz and station ISS was flying about 420 km (250 miles) over eastern Kazakhstan.

Astronaut Sergey Korsakov was greeted aboard the ISS with a hug from NASA astronaut Kayla Barron and the rest of the Expedition 66 crewmembers two fellow astronauts, four Americans and one German. (Photo: NASA TV)

Soyuz commander Oleg Artemyev led the team, along with new cosmonauts Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov on a 6.5-month science mission.

The launch was televised live by NASA TV and posted on the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) website.

The 10 connected crew talks with relatives and Russian space officials during a video conference after arriving at the ISS station. (Photo: TV Roskosmos)

After about 2.5 hours of flight, Soyuz could see from the space station a small black dot that grew as it got closer, the NASA webcast showed (showing broadcasts over the Internet using the technology). online streaming).

The three astronauts will join the ISS’s current seven-member crew to replace the three scheduled to return to Earth on March 30, including cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton. Shkaplerov and US NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei looks at the view from the multi-window capsule of the ISS in February. (Image: NASA)

Remaining on the ISS with the newcomers for the next two months were three NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari and Kayla Barron and German astronaut Matthias Maurer of the European Space Agency.

These four crew members came together to the ISS in November 2021 aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA to begin a six-month mission in orbit.

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