.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its amount of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site. Hatch position is scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA material through a selection of systems, featuring social networking sites.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly participate in Expedition 71 workers members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely spend roughly 6 months aboard the periodic station advancing medical analysis as Expedition 71/72 crew participants just before coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Expedition 72, pair of new staffs will certainly come in aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his purpose and acquire the most recent space station staff news on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station research study 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.