.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its own lot of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site. Hatch opening is scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA content by means of an assortment of platforms, consisting of social media sites.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly participate in Trip 71 staff members, featuring NASA rocketeers 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 also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to devote roughly 6 months aboard the orbital station evolving scientific study as Exploration 71/72 workers participants before going back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.Throughout Trip 72, 2 brand-new staffs will certainly get here aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, observed through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his mission and acquire the most up to date spaceport station workers information on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Space Station study and also 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.