Latest Astronaut Crew of 4 Welcomed Aboard International Space Station

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy depart their crew quarters for their launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to begin a six-month expedition on the International Space Station, at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 27, 2022. Steve Nesius/Reuters

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and docked their SpaceX capsule, just two days after the last crew to depart the orbiting outpost returned to Earth.

Rendezvous of the Crew Dragon capsule with the station less than 16 hours after launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, marked one of the fastest flights by Elon Musk’s SpaceX to the ISS from liftoff to docking, NASA webcast commentators said.