.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its variety of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component 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 insurance coverage of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site. Hatch position is planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA web content by means of an assortment of systems, consisting of social media.As soon as aboard, the triad is going to participate in Exploration 71 team participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely devote around six months aboard the orbital outpost evolving medical investigation as Exploration 71/72 crew participants prior to coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Expedition 72, pair of new crews will definitely get here aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, complied with through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his purpose as well as acquire the current space station team updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More about International Spaceport station 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.