Moscow, Dhu-AlHijjah 22, 1438, September 13, 2017, SPA -- Two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday in a Russian-designed Soyuz spacecraft, dpa reported.. NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, together with Alexander Misurkin of Russian space agency Roscosmos, arrived at around 0300 GMT after a six-hour flight from the Baikonur launch facility in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, NASA said in a statement. The spacefarers, scheduled to stay until February, brought the total number of crewmembers aboard the station to six, joining US astronaut Randolph Bresnik, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky and Italy's Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency. More than 200 people have been aboard the space station in its 16 years of continuous operation, "advancing scientific knowledge and demonstrating new technologies, making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth that will enable long-duration human and robotic exploration into deep space," NASA said. --SPA 14:22 LOCAL TIME 11:22 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w486619