Watch: US-Russian crew to dock with space station

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Summary

  1. A SpaceX crew of three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut is due to arrive at the International Space Station (ISS)
  2. The Endeavour spacecraft is expected to dock with the ISS at about 08:00 GMT after blasting off from Florida on Monday
  3. The Crew-8 mission will be in space for six months. Space is one of the few areas where the US and Russia continue to co-operate closely despite the war in Ukraine
  4. More than 200 science experiments are to be conducted during the mission, including growing artificial replicas of human organs in the low-gravity environment - which is not possible on Earth
  5. Nasa says the newcomers will join a seven-person crew currently at the space station, which sits some 250 miles (420km) above the Earth
  6. We won't be bringing you text updates but you can follow a stream of the craft landing by clicking the play button at the top of this page
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