.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its lot of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe 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 are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's web site. Hatch opening is actually set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA material by means of an assortment of platforms, consisting of social media.As soon as aboard, the triad will definitely join Expedition 71 staff participants, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will spend around 6 months aboard the orbital outpost evolving scientific investigation as Expedition 71/72 crew participants just before returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During Trip 72, 2 brand new workers will certainly arrive aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, complied with by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective and get the latest space station crew headlines on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more about International Spaceport station study and functions 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.