.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its own variety of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately 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 time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site. Hatch opening is actually arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA content with a range of platforms, featuring social networking sites.The moment aboard, the trio will certainly participate in Expedition 71 crew participants, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to spend roughly six months aboard the periodic station advancing medical analysis as Exploration 71/72 crew members just before coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Trip 72, two brand new staffs will definitely get there aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his mission and get the current spaceport station team updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More about International Spaceport 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.