The International Space Station welcomed three new crew member who quickly adapted to life in orbit, engaging in scientific research and station maintenance, ranging from studying plant life in space to ensuring the operational health of the station.

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Willmore are set to give an update on their mission, about one week since the Starliner space capsule returned to Earth without them.

NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station started growing chili peppers in the Advanced Plant Habitat, as part of the Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04) experiment. The astronauts and a team of researchers at Kennedy worked together to monitor the peppers' growth before harvesting them.

The capsule atop a towering rocket set off from a Russian launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and docked with the space station after two orbits of the Earth, a fast trip compared with some that have lasted for days.

Here is what the world agencies reported from Wednesday night to Thursday morning. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, with two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut on board, reached the International Space Station late Wednesday evening,

Hatch opening of the Soyuz MS-26 at International Space Station Live coverage of the hatch opening and welcoming remarks from the Soyuz MS-26 crew at the International Space Station after the spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked on Wednesday,