McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov were welcomed by the Expedition 72 crew, including NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Don Petitt, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner.
McClain, Ayers, Onishi and Peskov arrived today at the International Space Station, as the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the orbiting complex at 12:04 a.m. EDT, while the station was roughly 260 statute miles over the Atlantic Ocean.
The number of crew aboard the Space Station increased to 11 people before Crew-9 members, Hague, Williams, Wilmore, and Gorbunov return to Earth following the crew handover period.