.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its amount of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site. Hatch position is planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA information by means of a range of systems, consisting of social networks.Once aboard, the triad will certainly join Expedition 71 workers members, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely invest around six months aboard the orbital outstation progressing medical study as Trip 71/72 workers members prior to returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Expedition 72, two new staffs will get here aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as obtain the most recent space station team news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More about International Space Station 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.