A three-member multinational crew have arrived on the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.

NASA TV captured American and Japanese astronauts Kathleen Rubins and Takuya Onishi, with Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin as they entered the ISS.

The trio lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 7 and will join NASA astronaut and station commander Jeff Williams and two Russian cosmonauts who have been aboard the orbital outpost since March.