.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its own number of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically docked to the orbiting lab's Rassvet element 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 insurance coverage of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's site. Hatch position is actually planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA material through an assortment of systems, consisting of social networking sites.As soon as aboard, the trio will certainly participate in Exploration 71 team participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic station accelerating scientific analysis as Expedition 71/72 staff members prior to coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Expedition 72, 2 brand new crews will definitely get there aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective and also receive the most up to date spaceport station team updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station study and also 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.