.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its own variety of locals 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 probe instantly anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's internet site. Hatch opening is actually set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA web content through a variety of platforms, consisting of social networking sites.As soon as aboard, the triad will participate in Trip 71 crew members, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month stay for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will devote around 6 months aboard the periodic station evolving scientific research as Exploration 71/72 crew participants just before coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Expedition 72, pair of brand-new workers will get there aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as obtain the most up to date spaceport station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More about International Space Station analysis and also 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.