.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own number of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's website. Hatch opening is planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA web content via an assortment of systems, consisting of social networking sites.Once aboard, the triad is going to sign up with Exploration 71 staff members, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, completing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely invest approximately six months aboard the orbital station advancing clinical study as Exploration 71/72 workers participants prior to going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Expedition 72, two new teams are going to get here aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, adhered to by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his objective and also receive the most up to date spaceport station workers headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More about International Space Station research as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.