TORONTO – Three new crewmembers have safely arrived at the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:02 p.m. EDT Wednesday in a Russian Soyuz rocket.
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The three successfully docked with the space station at 10:45 p.m. with the hatch opening at 12:56 a.m. Thursday morning.
The three will spend five months aboard the orbiting space laboratory conducting hundreds of experiments.
The three join the one-year crew, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko as well as Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka.
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