.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its variety of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component 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 coverage of hatch opening are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's website. Hatch opening is set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA material via an assortment of systems, consisting of social networking sites.Once aboard, the trio will sign up with Exploration 71 staff participants, including 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. Expedition 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will spend around six months aboard the periodic station progressing clinical research study as Trip 71/72 staff members just before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, 2 brand-new crews are going to come in aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, complied with through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective and receive the most up to date space station staff information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more concerning International Space Station research as well as functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- edge-.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.