.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its own lot of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover time 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 element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's web site. Hatch opening is actually set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA material through a variety of platforms, including social media.Once aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with Exploration 71 crew members, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to spend roughly six months aboard the orbital outpost progressing medical research as Expedition 71/72 team members just before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, pair of brand new staffs are going to come in aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his mission and also receive the most up to date spaceport station workers headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More regarding International Space Station research and 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.