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Crew Dragon spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina on board docked with ISS – NASA

After 1.5 hours, crew members will be able to board the station

NEW YORK, October 7. /TASS/. Space X’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, the crew of which includes Russian citizen Anna Kikina, has docked with the International Space Station. The broadcast is on the website of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The docking of the Crew-5 mission took place in the automatic mode at 05:01 p.m. East Coast time (00:01 a.m. October 7 Moscow time).

The final stage of the spacecraft's rendezvous with the ISS began at 04:16 p.m. (11:16 p.m. Moscow time).

"Dragon has docked with the International Space Station," the host of the broadcast said.

In about an hour and a half, four members of the crew, which also includes NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Kassada and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, will be able to board the station

On Wednesday, Kikina became the first Russian cosmonaut to travel to the ISS on a Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of a cross-flight program between NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Initially, the launch was scheduled for October 3, but NASA experts postponed it twice due to Hurricane Ian. The crew will stay on the ISS for 145 days.

On July 15, Roscosmos announced the signing of an agreement on joint cross-flights by Russian and US cosmonauts to the ISS. The commander of the Roscosmos cosmonaut team, Oleg Kononenko, said the agreement envisaged three flights by Russian cosmonauts on the US spacecraft Crew Dragon. Under the cross-flight program US astronaut Frank Rubio set off for the ISS aboard the Russian spacecraft K. E. Tsiolkovsky (Soyuz MS-22) from the Baikonur cosmodrome on September 21.