Docking occurred at 2:53 p.m. ET today (Sept. 15).
O'Hara, Kononenko and Chub will join seven other spaceflyers on board the orbiting lab. The two cosmonauts will embark on a year-long ISS mission, while O'Hara will come home in six months.
O'Hara and Chub are spaceflight rookies, but Kononenko is very experienced. The cosmonaut had already accrued 736 days in orbit across four different ISS missions before today's launch. During his yearlong stint, Kononenko will break the all-time record for most time in space, 878 days, held by fellow cosmonautMS-24's arrival also sets the wheels in motion for an ISS departure. On Sept.
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