.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its own lot of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly docked to the orbiting lab's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's site. Hatch position is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA web content with an assortment of systems, including social media sites.The moment aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with Expedition 71 staff participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift 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, and also Vagner is going to spend approximately 6 months aboard the periodic station accelerating medical analysis as Trip 71/72 team participants just before going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Trip 72, two brand-new crews will come in aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, observed through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his objective and also obtain the current spaceport station team news on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Space Station research study as well as operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- edge-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Leah CheshierJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.