Expedition 44 Crew Opens Hatch And Enters The International Space Station.

A few hours after docking, Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency opened hatches and were greeted by station Commander Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos, NASA Flight Engineer Scott Kelly and Russian Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko. As the crew met face to face in orbit, the families of the newly arrived crew and American, Russian and Japanese space officials viewed the activities from a conference facility in Baikonur near the launch site.