.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its own number of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe immediately anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's web site. Hatch position is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA material with a range of systems, featuring social networking sites.As soon as aboard, the triad will certainly join Exploration 71 crew participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely invest about six months aboard the orbital station advancing medical research study as Expedition 71/72 crew members prior to going back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Expedition 72, 2 brand-new staffs will certainly come in aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also receive the most recent spaceport station team information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more about International Space Station analysis and operations 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.