.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own variety of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically docked to the orbiting lab's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website. Hatch opening is planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA web content with a selection of platforms, consisting of social networks.The moment aboard, the trio is going to sign up with Exploration 71 crew participants, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to invest approximately 6 months aboard the periodic outstation advancing clinical research as Expedition 71/72 team members prior to coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During the course of Trip 72, two new teams will certainly arrive aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to by Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his purpose as well as obtain the latest spaceport station team information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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.