.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its variety of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 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 flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's web site. Hatch opening is actually planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA web content via a range of systems, including social networks.When aboard, the trio is going to join Exploration 71 crew participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely devote around six months aboard the orbital station accelerating clinical analysis as Exploration 71/72 team participants before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Exploration 72, pair of new teams will certainly arrive aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as acquire the current spaceport station workers information on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More about International Space Station research study 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.