.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its variety of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly docked to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's site. Hatch opening is set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA material through a wide array of platforms, featuring social media sites.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely join Trip 71 staff members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely spend roughly six months aboard the orbital station accelerating clinical analysis as Expedition 71/72 crew participants before going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Exploration 72, pair of new teams are going to come in aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, observed through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission as well as acquire the current spaceport station workers information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More about International Spaceport station analysis 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.