.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its variety of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's web site. Hatch opening is scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA web content through a range of systems, consisting of social networking sites.Once aboard, the trio is going to sign up with Trip 71 staff members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely devote approximately 6 months aboard the periodic outpost progressing medical analysis as Trip 71/72 team members just before going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, 2 brand-new workers will come in aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective and acquire the latest spaceport station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More about International Spaceport station research as well as 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.