.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its own number of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site. Hatch opening is actually arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA content by means of a range of platforms, including social networking sites.Once aboard, the triad is going to sign up with Exploration 71 crew participants, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month stay for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will invest approximately 6 months aboard the orbital outstation advancing medical analysis as Exploration 71/72 workers members before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Exploration 72, pair of brand-new staffs will show up aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also acquire the most recent spaceport station workers updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station analysis and operations 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.