.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its variety of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft immediately docked to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site. Hatch opening is arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA information by means of a range of platforms, consisting of social networks.As soon as aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with Trip 71 team participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month stay for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely invest about six months aboard the periodic outpost evolving scientific investigation as Exploration 71/72 workers participants prior to coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Expedition 72, two brand-new teams are going to show up aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as acquire the most recent space station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station research and also procedures 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.