.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own number of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's website. Hatch position is actually booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA material by means of an assortment of platforms, consisting of social networking sites.The moment aboard, the trio will join Trip 71 workers participants, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely invest roughly 6 months aboard the periodic station advancing medical analysis as Exploration 71/72 crew members prior to going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During Expedition 72, two brand-new teams are going to arrive aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, complied with through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his purpose and obtain the latest spaceport station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station research study and procedures 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.