.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its own variety of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe 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 opening will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's site. Hatch position is actually arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA web content via a variety of systems, consisting of social media.When aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with Expedition 71 workers participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly devote around 6 months aboard the orbital outstation advancing scientific research study as Exploration 71/72 staff participants before coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Exploration 72, pair of new staffs will definitely come in aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, followed through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as get the most up to date spaceport station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More concerning International Space Station investigation and also 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.