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Three New Crew Members Await Hatch Opening Live on NASA+

Soyuz MS-29 prime crew members (from left) NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia.
Soyuz MS-29 prime crew members (from left) NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Credit: GCTC

Live hatch-opening coverage, following the arrival of the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station, is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Hatch opening is scheduled to begin around 4 p.m. EDT. After, NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina will enter the space station, where they will spend about eight months before returning to Earth in April 2027.

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The Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station’s Prichal module at 1:52 p.m. after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:47 a.m. (7:47 p.m. Baikonur time).

Learn more about station activities by following @NASASpaceOps and @space_station on X, as well as the International Space Station’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.    

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