.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its variety of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's website. Hatch opening is booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content via a variety of platforms, featuring social networking sites.The moment aboard, the triad is going to participate in Trip 71 workers participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and 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 departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station leader Kononenko, completing a six-month stay for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely invest about six months aboard the periodic station progressing medical investigation as Expedition 71/72 crew participants just before coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.In the course of Expedition 72, pair of brand-new staffs will definitely get there aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed through Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his purpose as well as receive the latest spaceport station team information on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station research 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.