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<\/a>NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough<\/a> and Megan McArthur<\/a>, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide<\/a>, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet<\/a> arrived at the International Space Station Saturday, as the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour docked to the complex at 5:08 a.m. EDT while the spacecraft were flying 264 miles above the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n Following Crew Dragon\u2019s link up to the Harmony module, the astronauts aboard the Endeavour and the space station will begin conducting standard leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft in preparation for hatch opening scheduled for 7:15 a.m.<\/p>\n Kimbrough, McArthur, Hoshide, and Pesquet will join the Expedition 65 crew of Shannon Walker<\/a>, Michael Hopkins<\/a>,\u00a0 Victor Glover<\/a>, and Mark Vande Hei<\/a> of NASA, as well as Soichi Noguchi<\/a> of JAXA and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy<\/a> and Pyotr Dubrov<\/a>. For a short time, the number of crew on the space station will increase to 11 people until Crew-1 astronauts Walker, Hopkins, Glover, and Noguchi return a few days later.<\/p>\n NASA Television and the agency\u2019s website<\/a> are continuing to provide live continuous coverage of the agency\u2019s SpaceX Crew-2 mission.<\/p>\n Follow along and get more information about the mission at:\u202fhttp:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/crew-2<\/a>.\u202f\u00a0Learn more about station activities by following the\u00a0space station blog<\/a>,\u00a0@space_station<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0@ISS_Research<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter as well as the\u00a0ISS Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ISS Instagram<\/a>\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet arrived at the International Space Station Saturday, as the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour docked to the complex at 5:08 a.m. EDT while the spacecraft were flying 264 miles above the \u2026 Continue reading