.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its own amount of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's website. Hatch opening is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA web content through a selection of systems, including social media.When aboard, the trio will definitely participate in Trip 71 staff participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to devote around six months aboard the orbital outpost evolving clinical study as Trip 71/72 workers participants before returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Exploration 72, two brand-new staffs are going to show up aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also obtain the current space station workers information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more concerning International Space 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.