.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own number of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site. Hatch opening is arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA content via a range of systems, consisting of social media sites.As soon as aboard, the triad will definitely participate in Expedition 71 team members, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month stay for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will invest about six months aboard the periodic outpost accelerating medical analysis as Exploration 71/72 team participants prior to coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Exploration 72, pair of new workers are going to get here aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, complied with through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as get the current space station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Space Station research study as well as 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.