New crew arrives at International Space Station after successful docking

KOROLYOV. KAZINFORM "Hatches have been opened, cosmonauts have crossed aboard the ISS," a spokesman for the Control Center told RIA Novosti.

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The Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russia’s Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and European Space Agency’s Thomas Pesquet docked to the ISS at 21:58GMT on Saturday.

The trio was welcomed by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko, and Shane Kimbrough of NASA who have been aboard the space station since October.

Source: Sputniknews