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<\/a>The hatches between the International Space Station<\/a> and the newly arrived Soyuz spacecraft officially opened at 11 a.m. EDT. The arrival of three new crew members to the existing seven people already aboard for Expedition 65<\/a> temporarily increases the station\u2019s population to 10.<\/p>\n This is the fourth flight into space for Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov<\/a>. Actress Yulia Peresild and producer Klim Shipenko are making their first flights into space and will spend 12 days on the space station, filming segments for a movie titled \u201cChallenge\u201d under a commercial agreement between Roscosmos and Moscow-based media entities.<\/p>\n Peresild and Shipenko will return to Earth with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy<\/a> Oct. 16 (Oct. 17 Kazakhstan time) on the Soyuz MS-18<\/a> spacecraft, which is currently docked at the space station, for a parachute-assisted landing on the Kazakh steppe. Shkaplerov will remain aboard the station through next March, returning with NASA astronauts\u00a0Mark Vande Hei<\/a>, and Roscosmos cosmonaut and Pyotr Dubrov<\/a> on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft. The return of Vande Hei and Dubrov will mark the end of a 355-day mission. Vande Hei will have completed the longest single spaceflight by an astronaut in U.S. history.<\/p>\n Expedition 65 Commander\u00a0Thomas Pesquet<\/a>\u00a0of ESA (European Space Agency), NASA astronauts\u00a0Shane Kimbrough<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Megan McArthur<\/a>, and\u00a0Aki Hoshide<\/a>\u00a0of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have been aboard since arriving April 23, 2021, on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour<\/a>. Endeavor and its crew are currently planned to return early-to-mid November.<\/p>\n Learn more about station activities by following the space 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":" The hatches between the International Space Station and the newly arrived Soyuz spacecraft officially opened at 11 a.m. EDT. The arrival of three new crew members to the existing seven people already aboard for Expedition 65 temporarily increases the station\u2019s population to 10. This is the fourth flight into space for Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov. \u2026 Continue reading