.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its lot of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site. Hatch position is booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA content by means of a variety of systems, featuring social media sites.The moment aboard, the trio will sign up with Exploration 71 team members, consisting of NASA astronauts 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 start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely spend approximately 6 months aboard the periodic station progressing medical research as Expedition 71/72 team members prior to going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's second.During the course of Exploration 72, two brand-new staffs are going to get here aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, followed by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal and get the current spaceport station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station study 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.