.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its variety of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule instantly docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's site. Hatch position is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA web content by means of an assortment of platforms, consisting of social networks.Once aboard, the triad will certainly join Exploration 71 team members, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely invest roughly six months aboard the orbital station evolving clinical research as Trip 71/72 crew participants just before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's second.In the course of Expedition 72, pair of new staffs will come in aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission as well as get the most up to date spaceport station workers information 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.