.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space 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 terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft 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 position will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site. Hatch position is arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA web content by means of a range of systems, consisting of social media sites.As soon as aboard, the trio will sign up with Exploration 71 workers participants, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will invest about six months aboard the periodic outstation advancing medical investigation as Expedition 71/72 team members prior to going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Expedition 72, two brand-new workers will certainly come in aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission and get the most recent spaceport station staff updates on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Space Station study and 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.