.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own variety of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting research 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) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's web site. Hatch opening is actually planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA material by means of a range of systems, consisting of social networks.Once aboard, the trio is going to 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, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital outstation advancing medical investigation as Trip 71/72 staff members just before coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Exploration 72, 2 brand-new teams will certainly come in aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his objective and also obtain the most recent spaceport station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station research study and functions 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.