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[b]Dragon Freedom docks at space station[/b] NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, April 27, as the SpaceX Dragon Freedom docked to the complex at 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT) while the spacecraft were flying about 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean. Following Crew Dragon's link up to the Harmony module, the astronauts aboard Dragon and the space station began conducting standard leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft and then proceeded with hatch opening. Lindgren, Hines, Watkins and Cristoforetti are joining the Expedition 67 crew of Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, all of NASA, Matthias Maurer of ESA, and cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Sergey Korsakov, and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos. For a short time, the number of crew on the space station will increase to 11 people until NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 departs in early May.
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