.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, carrying its variety of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.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 component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) 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 app, YouTube, and the firm's web site. Hatch position is scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA web content by means of a selection of systems, consisting of social media sites.Once aboard, the trio will join Expedition 71 team members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to invest approximately 6 months aboard the periodic outstation advancing clinical analysis as Trip 71/72 crew members prior to going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Exploration 72, pair of brand-new teams will show up aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as acquire the current space station staff information on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More about International Space Station research and also 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.