New Russian-US crew arrives safely on ISS
US astronaut Jonathan Kim and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky have arrived at the International Space Station after blasting off from Russia's Baikonur spaceport earlier on Tuesday.
Russian space agency Roscosmos reported that the Soyuz rocket carrying the three had blasted off from the spaceport in Kazakhstan on Tuesday morning. The docking took place some three hours later.
The new crew make up Expedition 73 aboard the ISS and will spend 245 days - around eight months – conducting research. Two space walks are planned in addition to numerous experiments.
The trio will join the current ISS team, known as Expedition 72, which includes astronauts from the United States, Japan and Russia.
The mission is Ryzhikov's third space mission, while Kim and Zubritsky are on their first.
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