Three Russian cosmonauts were welcomed aboard the International Space Station by four Americans, two Russians and a German already on board
The arrival of the latest cosmonaut team - warmly welcomed by four Americans, two Russians and a German crewmate already aboard - came a day after the European Space Agency announced it had suspended a joint robotic rover mission to Mars with Russia due to the Ukraine conflict.
About 2-1/2 hours later, after the passageway between the station and Soyuz was pressurized, two sets of hatches were opened and the three smiling Soyuz astronauts, dressed in yellow flight suits, floated head-first, one by one, into the ISS. They will be replacing three current ISS crew members scheduled to fly back to Earth on March 30 - cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov and U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei.
Those four crew members arrived together in November aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin a six-month stint in orbit.Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov pose for a picture during a news conference ahead of the expedition to the International Space Station at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan March 17, 2022.
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