Axiom Mission 3 astronauts were greeted with hugs as they docked on the International Space Station on Saturday 20 January.
The SpaceX flight blasted off from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center late afternoon on Thursday, with Italian, Swedish and Turkish astronauts on board.
Italian Air Force pilot Walter Villadei and mission specialists Alper Gezeravcı of Turkey and Marcus Wandt of Sweden were on board.
Their escort on the trip was a retired Nasa astronaut Michael López-Alegría.
They will spend the next two weeks performing experiments, chatting to schoolchildren and soaking in the views of Earth from the International Space Station, before returning home.
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