.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its own variety of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site. Hatch opening is actually set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA content by means of a range of platforms, consisting of social media.When aboard, the trio will join Exploration 71 workers participants, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will invest roughly 6 months aboard the periodic outpost accelerating medical study as Trip 71/72 workers participants before going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.Throughout Exploration 72, pair of brand-new crews will arrive aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, adhered to by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his mission and obtain the most up to date spaceport station team news on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more regarding International Space Station research study and 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.