.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its variety of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's site. Hatch opening is actually arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA material with a wide array of systems, consisting of social networks.Once aboard, the triad is going to sign up with Expedition 71 workers participants, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly devote approximately six months aboard the periodic outstation accelerating medical research study as Trip 71/72 staff members before returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Exploration 72, 2 new staffs will certainly arrive aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal and also acquire the most recent space station staff news on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station study as well as operations 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.