ISS welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary

The SpaceX capsule carrying a crew of four astronauts docks to the International Space Station. Picture: NASA via AP
The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, ferried there by SpaceX on a private flight.
The crew of four will spend two weeks at the orbiting lab, performing dozens of experiments. They launched Wednesday from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre.