.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its variety of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe 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 opening will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's site. Hatch opening is actually planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA information through a range of platforms, featuring social media sites.As soon as aboard, the triad will sign up with Expedition 71 staff 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. Exploration 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will invest about six months aboard the orbital outpost advancing medical analysis as Exploration 71/72 workers members just before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Expedition 72, two brand new workers will definitely get here aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his objective and also obtain the most recent space station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more about International Spaceport 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.