.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its variety of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element 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 protection of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's site. Hatch position is set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA content by means of a range of platforms, featuring social networking sites.When aboard, the trio will sign up with Exploration 71 staff participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely spend approximately six months aboard the orbital outstation accelerating scientific research as Trip 71/72 crew participants before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During Exploration 72, pair of brand-new teams will certainly get here aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, complied with through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his objective and get the most up to date space station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research as well as functions 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.