Posted: Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 11:42 AM ET (1542 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft delivered a new crew to the International Space Station early Tuesday. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off at 1:47 am EDT (0547 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and placed the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft into orbit. That spacecraft docked with the station's Prichal module a little more than three hours later. Soyuz MS-27 brought to the station NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. They will remain on the ISS for eight months, replacing Roscosmos' Ivan Vagner and Alexey Ovchinin and NASA's Don Pettit, who will return to Earth April 19.

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