.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its own amount of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's site. Hatch position is arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA information via a selection of systems, including social media sites.The moment aboard, the triad is going to sign up with Trip 71 crew participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month stay for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to spend roughly six months aboard the periodic outpost accelerating medical research study as Exploration 71/72 crew participants before returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Exploration 72, pair of new staffs are going to show up aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, observed by Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his mission and also get the current space station staff updates on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.