Expedition 68 Soyuz MS-22 Spacecraft Docking | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Soyuz MS-22 Spacecraft Docking | International Space Station

The Expedition 68 Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft autonomously docked to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station (ISS) on September 21, 2022, at 17:06 UTC (13:06 EDT). The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, with Roscosmos (Russia) cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, opened the hatch to the station at 3:34 p.m. EDT.

The arrival of three new crew members to the existing seven people already aboard for Expedition 67 temporarily increases the station’s population to 10.

Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov will return to Earth Sept. 29 on the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft, which is currently docked at the International Space Station, for a parachute-assisted landing on the Kazakh steppe.

Expedition 67 astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins of NASA and astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) have been aboard since arriving April 27, 2022, on the SpaceX Dragon Freedom. Freedom and its crew are currently planned to return early-to-mid October.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA/Roscosmos

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 5 minutes

Release Date: September 21, 2022

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