.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its amount of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately docked to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming 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 also the company's web site. Hatch opening is actually planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA web content through a range of systems, featuring social networks.As soon as aboard, the triad is going to join Expedition 71 staff members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to invest roughly 6 months aboard the periodic outstation evolving medical investigation as Trip 71/72 staff participants just before coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During Exploration 72, two brand-new teams will definitely get there aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as acquire the most recent spaceport station staff information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More about International Space Station study and also procedures 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.