.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its lot of locals 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 launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's web site. Hatch position is actually scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA information through a wide array of platforms, including social networks.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely join 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 cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will invest about six months aboard the orbital station accelerating scientific research study as Exploration 71/72 crew members just before coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Expedition 72, 2 new teams will get here aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission and acquire the current spaceport station team updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station research as well as 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.