.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own variety of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's web site. Hatch opening is actually scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA information with a variety of systems, consisting of social networking sites.Once aboard, the trio is going to sign up with Exploration 71 crew participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month remain for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely invest about six months aboard the periodic outpost advancing medical research study 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 fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Trip 72, two new staffs will definitely show up aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, complied with through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his purpose and get the current spaceport station staff headlines on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Space Station research study and also procedures 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.