.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its own number of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately docked 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 time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's site. Hatch opening is booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA material through a selection of systems, including social media sites.As soon as aboard, the triad will certainly participate in Exploration 71 staff participants, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to invest around six months aboard the orbital outstation evolving clinical research as Expedition 71/72 team members before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During Exploration 72, 2 brand-new crews will definitely show up aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed by Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his mission as well as get the latest space station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station study 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.