.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its own lot of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's website. Hatch opening is actually arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA material by means of an assortment of systems, consisting of social media sites.The moment aboard, the trio will certainly join Exploration 71 team members, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month stay for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly invest approximately 6 months aboard the periodic outpost accelerating medical research as Trip 71/72 team members just before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Exploration 72, two brand-new crews are going to arrive aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective and acquire the most recent spaceport station team information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.