Latest crew arrives at International Space Station

Four new crew members boarded the International Space Station on Tuesday morning.

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin arrived on board a SpaceX Dragon capsule.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sunday, and completed the 16-hour flight to the space station.

They replace a crew from the US, Denmark, Japan and Russia, who have been there since August.

The crew will carry out about 250 experiments in the orbital platform's microgravity environment.

It is the eighth team NASA has flown aboard a SpaceX launch vehicle since the private rocket venture, founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, began sending US astronauts to orbit in May 2020.