.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its own number of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's site. Hatch position is actually set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA web content by means of a variety of platforms, including social networking sites.As soon as aboard, the trio is going to participate in Exploration 71 crew participants, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to invest about six months aboard the periodic outpost progressing medical analysis as Exploration 71/72 team members before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Expedition 72, two new crews will arrive aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to by Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his mission and acquire the most recent spaceport station staff news on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Space Station study and also 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.