.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its amount of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module 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 coverage of hatch opening will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's web site. Hatch position is actually set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA web content via a selection of platforms, featuring social networks.When aboard, the trio will join Expedition 71 team members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to devote roughly 6 months aboard the orbital outstation progressing medical research study as Exploration 71/72 workers members prior to coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Expedition 72, 2 new staffs will come in aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, followed through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his mission as well as acquire the latest spaceport station workers headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station analysis 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.