.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its own lot of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's site. Hatch position is booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA material via a selection of platforms, consisting of social media sites.As soon as aboard, the trio will certainly participate in Expedition 71 staff members, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will spend approximately six months aboard the orbital outpost evolving clinical analysis as Trip 71/72 crew participants prior to coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Exploration 72, pair of brand new crews will certainly get here aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed by Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his goal and also acquire the latest spaceport station team news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Space Station research study and also procedures 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.