.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own lot of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft 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 will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's website. Hatch opening is actually set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA web content with an assortment of platforms, featuring social networking sites.As soon as aboard, the triad will join Expedition 71 staff members, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to devote approximately 6 months aboard the periodic outstation accelerating scientific investigation as Exploration 71/72 staff participants prior to coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Expedition 72, 2 brand-new teams are going to show up aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, observed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also receive the latest spaceport station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station research 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.