.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own amount of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule instantly 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 time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's website. Hatch position is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA web content through a range of platforms, including social networking sites.As soon as aboard, the trio will sign up with Exploration 71 team participants, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly spend around six months aboard the orbital outstation advancing scientific analysis as Trip 71/72 team members prior to returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During Trip 72, pair of brand-new staffs will certainly arrive aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, complied with through Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission and get the current spaceport station workers headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Space Station study and operations 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.