Cosmic embrace: Hatches between Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and ISS opened

The Favors crew stepped onto the ISS

The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome this morning at 8:47:15. And already at 14:28 Moscow time, the hatches between the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and the ISS were opened.

At 14:20, the team received permission to open the hatches, and at 14:28 the head of cosmonaut Sergei Zubritsky appeared from the hatch. Recall that this is his first flight into space.

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The cosmonauts joyfully greeted each other, exchanging hugs.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Bakanov, wished the crew "fruitful work, good luck and success."

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