.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own lot of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly docked to the orbiting research 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 opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's internet site. Hatch position is actually scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA content by means of a selection of systems, featuring social media.Once aboard, the triad will definitely participate in Exploration 71 workers members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will devote around 6 months aboard the periodic outstation evolving clinical study as Expedition 71/72 staff members before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Exploration 72, two new staffs are going to show up aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his purpose as well as acquire the most up to date spaceport station staff updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.