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Space - 15 September 2023
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1. Soyuz hatch opening as Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko is greeted by cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev
2. Exterior of International Space Station
3. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, followed by Kononenko, are welcomed onto the ISS by Prokopyev and others
4. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscomosmos cosmonaut Dmitry Petelin smiling ++MUTE++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Loral O'Hara, NASA astronaut:
"Yeah, thank you, it's incredible to be here. It was a beautiful launch. It was a beautiful flight. The only thing better than seeing the Earth for the first time and seeing space station for the first time was coming through the hatch and seeing all these guys here. So thank you."
6. Exterior of International Space Station
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Rubio, NASA astronaut:
"And it is absolutely awesome to have all these turtles up here. Thank you to the NASA team and the Roscosmos team for getting Soyuz 70 up here with us and we look forward to spending the next week showing them around. And we know they're going to have a fantastic mission."
8. Exterior of International Space Station ++MUTE++
9. Crew waves goodbye
STORYLINE:
One American and two Russians entered the International Space Station on Friday.
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and docked at the station three hours later.
"It's incredible to be here," NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara said.
"The only thing better than seeing the Earth for the first time and seeing space station for the first time was coming through the hatch and seeing all these guys here."
O’Hara will spend six months there while Kononenko and Chub will spend a year.
The trio was supposed to fly to the space station last spring, but their original capsule was needed as a replacement for another crew.
That crew — also two Russians and an American — will ride it home later this month.
Their stay was extended from six months to a year when their Soyuz capsule developed a coolant leak while parked at the station.
It's the first spaceflight for O’Hara and Chub, while mission commander Kononenko is on his fifth trip to the orbiting outpost.
They join seven station residents from U.S., Russia, Denmark and Japan.
By the end of his yearlong stay, Kononenko will set a new record for the longest time in space, more than a thousand days.
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