.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its own lot of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's web site. Hatch position is actually planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA content via a range of platforms, featuring social networking sites.When aboard, the trio will definitely sign up with Trip 71 team members, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly spend around six months aboard the periodic outpost advancing scientific study as Exploration 71/72 crew participants just before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.Throughout Trip 72, 2 brand-new staffs will definitely arrive aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed by Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his goal and receive the most recent space station team information on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study and procedures 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.