.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its own lot of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component 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 protection of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's web site. Hatch position is actually set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA content via a wide array of systems, featuring social networking sites.As soon as aboard, the trio will participate in Exploration 71 team members, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to spend approximately six months aboard the orbital outpost evolving medical research study as Expedition 71/72 crew participants just before coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Exploration 72, pair of new teams will definitely arrive aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal and also get the current spaceport station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More about International Space Station research study as well as operations 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.