.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, carrying its own 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 spacecraft instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element 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 will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's site. Hatch position is actually scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA information through a range of platforms, featuring social networking sites.The moment aboard, the trio is going to sign up with Trip 71 workers members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly spend about six months aboard the orbital outstation advancing scientific research as Trip 71/72 team participants prior to going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.During Trip 72, 2 new crews are going to come in aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to by Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal and also get the current spaceport station staff headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more about International Spaceport station research 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.