.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own number of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component 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 protection of hatch position will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's website. Hatch position is set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA material with a wide array of systems, including social media.As soon as aboard, the trio will certainly join Trip 71 staff members, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely invest around six months aboard the orbital outstation advancing clinical investigation as Expedition 71/72 crew members before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.Throughout Trip 72, 2 brand-new crews will show up aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his mission as well as obtain the current space station crew headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More about International Space Station investigation as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.