.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its variety of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft immediately dropped anchor 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 time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's site. Hatch position is actually scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA web content through a variety of platforms, featuring social media sites.When aboard, the triad is going to participate in Exploration 71 crew participants, featuring 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. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will invest about 6 months aboard the orbital station advancing medical investigation as Exploration 71/72 staff participants just before returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's second.In the course of Expedition 72, 2 new staffs will certainly come in aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, followed by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission and also acquire the latest space station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station research and procedures 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.