.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own variety of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting research laboratory'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 coverage of hatch position are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site. Hatch position is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content via a selection of systems, featuring social media.Once aboard, the trio will certainly join Trip 71 staff participants, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to devote approximately 6 months aboard the orbital outpost advancing clinical investigation as Exploration 71/72 staff members prior to returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Trip 72, pair of new crews will show up aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, adhered to by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also receive the most recent space station crew headlines on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more regarding International Space Station research and procedures 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.