.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its amount of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's site. Hatch opening is actually scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA content via a range of platforms, featuring social media sites.As soon as aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with Trip 71 team participants, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will spend approximately six months aboard the orbital station advancing scientific analysis as Exploration 71/72 staff participants before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Exploration 72, pair of brand-new staffs will definitely arrive aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as obtain the most recent space station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.