.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its number of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically docked to the orbiting lab'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 will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's website. Hatch position is actually set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA information via a wide array of platforms, consisting of social networks.The moment aboard, the triad is going to participate in Exploration 71 staff members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to invest about 6 months aboard the periodic station evolving clinical research study as Expedition 71/72 workers members before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.During Exploration 72, two brand-new staffs are going to show up aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, adhered to by Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as acquire the latest space station staff headlines on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station analysis as well as functions 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.