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MS-25 spacecraft docked with the ISS today at 11:03 a.m. EDT , about 50 hours after launching fromThe hatches between the Soyuz and the ISS are expected to open around 1:40 p.m. EDT today. You can watch that event, along with a welcome ceremony hosted by the orbiting lab's current residents, live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV. Coverage will begin at 1:15 p.m. EDT .NASA astronaut Tracy C.
Dyson will stay in orbit for about six months, serving as a flight engineer for ISS' Expeditions 70 and 71. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya, however, will live on the station for just 12 days or so; they'll come home in early April aboard a different Soyuz, along with NASA's Loral O'Hara.
O'Hara arrived at the station last September, aboard a Soyuz that also carried cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub. Kononenko and Chub are about halfway through their planned yearlong orbital stay; they'll come back toKononenko, Chub and O'Hara aren't the only astronauts who will welcome the Soyuz MS-25 trio aboard the ISS today. for NASA.
Soyuz MS-25 was originally supposed to launch on Thursday morning and arrive at the ISS that same day. But an electrical issue with its rocket rideto keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat.
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