.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own number of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule instantly anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's website. Hatch opening is arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA information with an assortment of platforms, consisting of social networking sites.Once aboard, the triad will certainly participate in Trip 71 crew participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital outpost accelerating scientific investigation as Trip 71/72 workers participants before going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During the course of Exploration 72, two brand-new staffs will show up aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his objective and get the most up to date spaceport station workers headlines on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station research study and 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.