.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its own variety of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically docked to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's site. Hatch opening is arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA content through a range of systems, consisting of social media.When aboard, the triad will join Exploration 71 workers participants, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to spend about six months aboard the orbital outstation evolving clinical study as Trip 71/72 team participants prior to coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Expedition 72, 2 brand-new workers are going to get there aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission and acquire the latest spaceport station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more regarding International Space Station research study and also 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.