.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its own lot of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's site. Hatch position is actually set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA content via a variety of platforms, consisting of social networking sites.The moment aboard, the triad is going to participate in Expedition 71 workers members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic outpost evolving scientific investigation as Trip 71/72 team members before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.Throughout Expedition 72, pair of brand-new teams are going to get there aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, observed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his mission and acquire the most up to date spaceport station crew information on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Space Station research and also functions 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.