.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its variety of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting lab'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 insurance coverage of hatch opening will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's internet site. Hatch opening is actually scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA information through a variety of platforms, featuring social media.When aboard, the trio is going to sign up with Exploration 71 team participants, featuring 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, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely devote around six months aboard the orbital station progressing scientific research study as Exploration 71/72 workers participants prior to going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.Throughout Exploration 72, 2 brand new teams will certainly get here aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his objective and also acquire the most recent space station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More concerning International Space Station analysis and also 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.