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[b]New Expedition 23 crew members welcomed aboard station[/b] Three new Expedition 23 crew members boarded the International Space Station Sunday morning. Credit: NASA TV Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko, together with NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, docked Soyuz TMA-18 to the station at 12:25 a.m as the two spacecraft orbited 222 miles above Kazakhstan. Following the completion of leak checks, the hatches between Soyuz TMA-18 and the station were opened at 2:19 a.m. CDT. A welcome ceremony for the new arrivals followed. Credit: NASA TV The TMA-18 crew members were greeted by Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and flight engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi who arrived at the station Dec. 22 aboard the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft. "It's great to see you on board the ISS," radioed NASA's deputy ISS program manager Kirk Shireman from Russia's mission control outside Moscow. "I wanted to wish you all a happy Easter. And for Soichi, T.J. and Oleg, it's great to see all of you as a crew of six on board ISS and wish you all the best on this holiday."
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