.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own amount of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe immediately anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's internet site. Hatch position is arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA content via an assortment of platforms, consisting of social media.The moment aboard, the trio will definitely sign up with Trip 71 staff members, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to spend about 6 months aboard the periodic station advancing medical research study as Expedition 71/72 staff members prior to returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's second.Throughout Trip 72, 2 brand new crews are going to get here aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal and receive the latest space station team information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station study 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.