.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its own lot of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's web site. Hatch position is set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA web content with a variety of platforms, consisting of social networks.Once aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with Trip 71 team participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, completing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly invest roughly six months aboard the periodic outpost accelerating medical research as Expedition 71/72 workers participants before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During Exploration 72, two brand new teams are going to get there aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his goal and receive the latest space station workers updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station research and also 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.