.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own lot of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately docked to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component 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 coverage of hatch opening will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's site. Hatch position is actually arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA material through an assortment of platforms, consisting of social media sites.When aboard, the triad will certainly participate in Trip 71 workers members, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will invest roughly 6 months aboard the orbital outstation evolving clinical analysis as Expedition 71/72 workers participants before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.During Expedition 72, two new workers will certainly get there aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, observed by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal and get the current space station staff information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station research study and operations 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.