.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its own lot of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft immediately docked to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site. Hatch opening is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA information through a wide array of systems, consisting of social media.When aboard, the trio will join Exploration 71 workers members, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month remain for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to devote about 6 months aboard the periodic outstation evolving clinical study as Expedition 71/72 staff members prior to returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Expedition 72, pair of new crews are going to come in aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as get the most up to date space station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station investigation and also procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Leah CheshierJohnson Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.