.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its amount of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's website. Hatch opening is set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA web content via a range of platforms, featuring social networks.The moment aboard, the trio will definitely join Trip 71 staff members, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly spend about six months aboard the orbital outstation accelerating clinical research study as Exploration 71/72 crew participants prior to returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Exploration 72, 2 brand-new staffs will definitely come in aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his goal and also receive the latest space station workers information on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station study and also procedures 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.