.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, carrying its number of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component 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 will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site. Hatch opening is actually booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA material through a variety of platforms, consisting of social media sites.When aboard, the trio will certainly participate in Expedition 71 crew members, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely invest roughly 6 months aboard the periodic outpost evolving clinical analysis as Exploration 71/72 team members before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.Throughout Exploration 72, 2 brand new staffs will definitely get here aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his objective and receive the current space station team news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Space Station investigation and also operations 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.