.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its amount of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe immediately docked to the orbiting laboratory'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 definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's internet site. Hatch position is actually arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA material via a range of platforms, including social networking sites.The moment aboard, the trio will definitely join Expedition 71 staff participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will devote around six months aboard the periodic outpost progressing medical research study as Expedition 71/72 workers members prior to coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, two brand-new crews will get here aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to by Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as acquire the most recent space station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station investigation and also procedures 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.