.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its own lot of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's website. Hatch position is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content through a selection of platforms, featuring social networks.As soon as aboard, the triad is going to participate in Trip 71 crew participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month stay for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will invest about six months aboard the orbital outstation progressing medical analysis as Exploration 71/72 crew participants prior to going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Exploration 72, pair of new staffs are going to show up aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his purpose and get the current spaceport station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More regarding International Spaceport station analysis as well as procedures 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.