By NASA March 26, 2024The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft approaches the station for docking. Credit: NASA TVNASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station at 11:03 a.m. EDT.The hatches between the International Space Station and the freshly gotten here Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft formally opened at 1:26 p.m. EDT. The arrival of three brand-new team members to the existing 7 people already aboard for Expedition 70 momentarily increases the stations population to 10. The Soyuz MS-25 team signs up with the Expedition 70 crew aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TVThe newly arrived trio signed up with NASA astronauts Loral OHara, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Alexander Grebenkin, currently working and living aboard the area station.Dyson will invest 6 months aboard the station as an Expedition 70 and 71 flight engineer, returning to Earth in September with Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, who will finish a year-long mission on the laboratory.Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will be aboard the station for 12 days, providing the ride home for OHara on Saturday, April 6, aboard Soyuz MS-24 for a parachute-assisted landing on steppe of Kazakhstan. OHara will have invested 204 days in area when she returns.
