.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its amount of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's website. Hatch opening is actually planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA information via a range of platforms, featuring social networking sites.When aboard, the trio will certainly participate in Trip 71 team members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly invest roughly six months aboard the orbital station progressing medical investigation as Exploration 71/72 crew members before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During Exploration 72, two brand new crews will certainly arrive aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed through Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as obtain the most recent spaceport station crew news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station analysis and also procedures 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.