.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its number of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule instantly anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's internet site. Hatch opening is actually scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA information with a variety of systems, featuring social networking sites.When aboard, the trio will certainly join Expedition 71 staff members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, completing a six-month stay for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely invest roughly six months aboard the periodic station progressing clinical analysis as Exploration 71/72 staff participants before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, 2 brand new crews will definitely come in aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed through Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as receive the current spaceport station workers headlines on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More about International Spaceport station research and also procedures 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.