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[b]Hatches open, 10 crew members on station[/b] The hatches between the International Space Station and the newly-arrived Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft opened on Friday (April 9) at 9:20 a.m. EDT (1320 GMT). The arrival of NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos temporarily increases the station's population to ten. The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft docked to the Rassvet module at 7:05 a.m. EDT (1105 GMT) while both spacecraft were flying about 262 miles above northern China. Now on board the orbiting laboratory, Vande Hei, Novitskiy and Dubrov have joined the Expedition 64 crew, including commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos and flight engineers Sergey Kud-Sverchkov also of Roscosmos, NASA astronauts Kate Rubins, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi. Expedition 65 begins on April 16, with the departure of Ryzhikov, Kud-Sverchkov and Rubins on Soyuz MS-17. Ryzhikov will hand off command of the space station to Walker during a ceremony on April 15.
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