.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its own number of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule instantly anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's website. Hatch position is booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA web content via a selection of platforms, consisting of social media sites.Once aboard, the triad will definitely join Trip 71 workers participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will spend about 6 months aboard the periodic outstation accelerating scientific analysis as Exploration 71/72 team participants before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, 2 brand-new crews will arrive aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, complied with by Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his mission and also get the latest space station team updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station study and also 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.