.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own amount of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's website. Hatch opening is actually arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content by means of a variety of systems, consisting of social media.Once aboard, the triad will certainly join Exploration 71 staff members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly devote about six months aboard the periodic station accelerating scientific research as Expedition 71/72 crew participants just before going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During the course of Trip 72, two brand new staffs will arrive aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, observed through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his mission and also get the current space station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station research study 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.