.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, carrying its own amount of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component 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 position will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website. Hatch position is actually planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA material via a wide array of systems, consisting of social media.Once aboard, the triad will definitely join Expedition 71 staff participants, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely spend approximately 6 months aboard the orbital outstation advancing medical research as Trip 71/72 staff participants just before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Exploration 72, two brand-new workers will definitely arrive aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his objective and acquire the current space station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station study as well as functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- edge-.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.