--- title: Live: Watch as Astronauts Dock With the International Space Station description: After a successful launch and docking, three astronauts join crew aboard the International Space Station. canonical: https://time.com/3967745/watch-astronauts-join-colleagues-on-the-international-space-station/ author: Jonathan Woods article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-23T04:29:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:27.380Z article:section: Science og:title: Live: Watch as Astronauts Dock With the International Space Station og:description: After a successful launch and docking, three astronauts join crew aboard the International Space Station. og:url: https://time.com/3967745/watch-astronauts-join-colleagues-on-the-international-space-station/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88dc13a407413c09/69885c2e8e0601dfba461871/crew-arrives.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Crew arrives to ISS og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Live: Watch as Astronauts Dock With the International Space Station twitter:description: After a successful launch and docking, three astronauts join crew aboard the International Space Station. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88dc13a407413c09/69885c2e8e0601dfba461871/crew-arrives.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Astronauts Successfuly Join Colleagues on the International Space Station ## Video: A Year in Space - Ep.1: Leaving Home [Watch (HLS stream): A Year in Space - Ep.1: Leaving Home](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6ookw4W2.m3u8) (13:31)  _Published 2021-03-11. A Year in Space - Ep.1: Leaving Home_  by [Jonathan Woods](https://time.com/author/jonathan-d-woods/)  ## Jonathan Woods Jul 23, 2015 4:29 AM UTC  Oleg Kononenko, Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui arrive aboard the space station in the early morning hours of Thursday, July 23, 2015. Oleg Kononenko, Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui arrive aboard the space station in the early morning hours of Thursday, July 23, 2015.NASA  by [Jonathan Woods](https://time.com/author/jonathan-d-woods/)  ## Jonathan Woods Jul 23, 2015 4:29 AM UTC Three astronauts have docked with the International Space Station and are joining three existing members on board the station for the next five months. The three astronauts arriving at the International Space Station include American astronaut [Kjell Lindgren](http://instagram.com/astro%5Fkjell) and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, who are flying for the first time. They are led by Soyuz commander Oleg Kononenko. The crew is slated to stay onboard for five months, returning on Dec. 22. The trio will join American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka, who have already been in space for 117 days. They launched in the early hours of March 28. _TIME is following the yearlong mission between American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko._ [_Click here to watch the series_](http://time.com/space)_, or watch Episode 1, “Leaving Home,” below._ Live: Watch as Astronauts Dock With the International Space Station ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3967745/watch-astronauts-join-colleagues-on-the-international-space-station/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3967745/watch-astronauts-join-colleagues-on-the-international-space-station/"},"headline":"Astronauts Successfuly Join Colleagues on the International Space Station","datePublished":"2015-07-23T04:29:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:58:27.380Z","description":"The crew is slated to stay in space for five months, returning on Dec. 22.","url":"https://time.com/3967745/watch-astronauts-join-colleagues-on-the-international-space-station/","keywords":["Space","rocket","space station"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88dc13a407413c09/69885c2e8e0601dfba461871/crew-arrives.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jonathan Woods","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jonathan-d-woods/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88dc13a407413c09/69885c2e8e0601dfba461871/crew-arrives.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Crew arrives to ISS","caption":"Crew arrives to ISS","creditText":"NASA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3967745/watch-astronauts-join-colleagues-on-the-international-space-station/","name":"Astronauts Successfuly Join Colleagues on the International Space Station"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Year in Space - Ep.1: Leaving Home","description":"A Year in Space - Ep.1: Leaving Home","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6ookw4W2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2021-03-11T18:13:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6ookw4W2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3967745/watch-astronauts-join-colleagues-on-the-international-space-station/","duration":"PT13M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3967745/watch-astronauts-join-colleagues-on-the-international-space-station/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```