.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its own lot of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's internet site. Hatch opening is actually booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA material with a range of systems, consisting of social media.Once aboard, the trio will join Trip 71 staff participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly spend approximately six months aboard the periodic outstation accelerating scientific investigation as Expedition 71/72 crew participants before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's second.During the course of Trip 72, 2 brand new teams are going to come in aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his goal and obtain the latest space station team updates on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More about International Space Station research study as well as 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.