.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its own variety of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site. Hatch opening is planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA content by means of a range of systems, featuring social networking sites.Once aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with Trip 71 team 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 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly devote about six months aboard the periodic outpost progressing scientific research study as Trip 71/72 staff members just before returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Trip 72, 2 new crews will definitely show up aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective and also obtain the latest space station team news on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.