Dragon hatches open, Crew-12 joins Expedition 74

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev entered the International Space Station after opening the hatches at 5:14 p.m. EST between the space station and the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

Meir, Hathaway, Adenot, and Fedyaev now join Expedition 74, alongside NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, who were already aboard the orbiting laboratory.

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