.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its variety of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's site. Hatch position is actually scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content by means of a variety of systems, featuring social networks.The moment aboard, the trio will join Expedition 71 crew participants, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly devote approximately six months aboard the periodic outstation accelerating clinical analysis as Trip 71/72 crew participants before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.In the course of Trip 72, pair of new staffs will definitely get there aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as obtain the current space station staff news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station analysis as well as 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.