.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its own number of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's website. Hatch position is planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA information through a variety of platforms, featuring social media.Once aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with Expedition 71 workers members, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely spend roughly six months aboard the orbital outstation progressing medical research as Exploration 71/72 workers members before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During the course of Expedition 72, pair of new workers will come in aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, followed by Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also obtain the most up to date space station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station research study as well as operations 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.