.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its variety of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically anchored to the orbiting research 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 coverage of hatch position will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's web site. Hatch position is actually scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA information with a selection of platforms, consisting of social networks.When aboard, the triad will definitely join Exploration 71 staff members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly devote approximately six months aboard the periodic outstation advancing scientific investigation as Expedition 71/72 crew participants just before going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's second.During the course of Trip 72, two new crews will certainly get there aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective and get the current spaceport station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station investigation and also 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.