.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its variety of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly docked to the orbiting lab's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website. Hatch position is actually booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA material through a wide array of systems, including social media.Once aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with Trip 71 crew members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to invest around 6 months aboard the periodic station evolving medical research study as Exploration 71/72 workers members before returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, pair of brand-new staffs are going to show up aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his goal and also acquire the latest space station crew information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More about International Spaceport station analysis 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.