.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its lot of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's website. Hatch position is booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA material via a wide array of systems, including social media.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely join Trip 71 crew participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly invest about 6 months aboard the periodic station progressing clinical study as Trip 71/72 workers members before going back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Trip 72, pair of new teams are going to get there aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also obtain the latest spaceport station crew news on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More about International Space Station investigation and also operations 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.