.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its number of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's website. Hatch opening is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA information with a wide array of platforms, consisting of social media.The moment aboard, the triad will definitely join Trip 71 workers members, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly devote about six months aboard the periodic station advancing clinical research as Expedition 71/72 team members before returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's second.During the course of Exploration 72, two new teams will definitely arrive aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as receive the most up to date space station staff headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station investigation and functions 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.