.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its variety of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe 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 position will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's internet site. Hatch opening is set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA information with a wide array of systems, featuring social media sites.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly join Trip 71 team members, 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, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month stay for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely invest about six months aboard the orbital outstation evolving scientific research as Trip 71/72 team members before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Expedition 72, pair of brand-new workers will get here aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, complied with through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his objective and also receive the most up to date spaceport station crew news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More about International Space Station research study and 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.