.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its own number of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft immediately docked 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 opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's website. Hatch position is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA web content through a variety of platforms, including social media.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely participate in Trip 71 crew participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to spend roughly six months aboard the periodic station advancing scientific investigation as Exploration 71/72 staff members prior to coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Exploration 72, two brand-new workers are going to come in aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his mission and receive the most up to date space station team news on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station research study 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.