.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own variety of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft immediately docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element 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 coverage of hatch opening will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's website. Hatch position is arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA material by means of a wide array of platforms, featuring social media.As soon as aboard, the triad will definitely join Exploration 71 staff members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month stay for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly spend roughly 6 months aboard the periodic station evolving scientific investigation as Expedition 71/72 team participants before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.During the course of Expedition 72, two new staffs are going to get here aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, observed through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his goal and acquire the latest space station workers information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more about International Space Station 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.