.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its amount of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element 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 protection of hatch opening are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's web site. Hatch opening is actually scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA material via a range of systems, including social media sites.When aboard, the triad will certainly join Exploration 71 workers participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly spend about six months aboard the orbital outstation progressing clinical research as Exploration 71/72 staff members before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, 2 new crews are going to come in aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his mission as well as get the latest spaceport station workers updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station research study and also 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.