.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its own amount of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's site. Hatch position is actually set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA content with a variety of systems, featuring social networking sites.Once aboard, the trio will join Trip 71 team participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month remain for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will invest about 6 months aboard the periodic outpost advancing scientific research study as Trip 71/72 team members just before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, two brand-new staffs will certainly come in aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, complied with through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his mission as well as obtain the most recent spaceport station workers headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Space Station study and procedures 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.