.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its amount of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft 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 flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's internet site. Hatch opening is actually arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA web content via a variety of systems, including social networks.As soon as aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with Exploration 71 staff participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to spend around 6 months aboard the periodic outpost progressing clinical study as Expedition 71/72 team members before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's second.In the course of Expedition 72, two brand-new staffs will definitely get there aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also obtain the current space station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.