A Japanese astronaut handed over a mission sash to a compatriot who arrived with three other astronauts aboard a SpaceX capsule on Saturday, joining him and several others on the International Space Station (ISS).
Japan's Soichi Noguchi handed over to Akihiko Hoshide who had lived at the ISS before.
The International Space Station's population swelled to 11 on Saturday with the jubilant arrival of SpaceX's third crew capsule in less than a year, carrying four astronauts, including Hoshide.
It's the biggest crowd up there in more than a decade.
The astronauts are from the US, Russia, Japan and France.
The capsule arrived a day after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
The newcomers will spend six months at the space station.
They’ll replace four astronauts who will return to Earth in their own Dragon capsule Wednesday to end a half-year mission.
NASA deliberately planned for a brief overlap so the outgoing SpaceX crew could show the new arrivals around.
The current population includes six Americans, two Russians, two Japanese and one from France.
It will shrink by four on Wednesday when three Americans and Noguchi depart for home and a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
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