.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its lot of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's internet site. Hatch opening is actually set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA information by means of a variety of platforms, featuring social media.Once aboard, the trio is going to sign up with Trip 71 staff participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will invest roughly 6 months aboard the periodic station evolving scientific study as Trip 71/72 workers participants just before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's second.Throughout Trip 72, two brand-new workers will show up aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, complied with through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his mission and also receive the current spaceport station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more about International Space Station investigation and also operations 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.