.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its lot of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule instantly docked to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's site. Hatch position is actually arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA content via a range of systems, featuring social media sites.Once aboard, the trio will certainly join Trip 71 crew participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will spend around six months aboard the periodic outpost evolving clinical study as Expedition 71/72 staff members before coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Trip 72, 2 brand new workers will get here aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective and receive the most up to date spaceport station crew news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station analysis and functions 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.