.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its variety of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site. Hatch opening is actually booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA material through a wide array of platforms, including social media sites.The moment aboard, the triad is going to join Trip 71 team members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will invest about six months aboard the orbital outpost evolving medical analysis as Trip 71/72 workers participants before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.In the course of Trip 72, pair of brand-new teams will certainly get here aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his mission and also receive the latest spaceport station crew news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more about International Space Station investigation and functions 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.