.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its own lot of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule 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 stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's internet site. Hatch position is planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA information through an assortment of systems, consisting of social media.As soon as aboard, the trio is going to sign up with Exploration 71 crew participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely spend roughly 6 months aboard the periodic outpost advancing scientific analysis as Trip 71/72 team participants prior to returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Expedition 72, two brand-new teams will certainly come in aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective and also acquire the most recent spaceport station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station research study and also operations 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.