.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its number of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically dropped anchor 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 time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's web site. Hatch position is actually booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA web content by means of a wide array of systems, including social networks.As soon as aboard, the trio is going to participate in Trip 71 staff participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely devote about six months aboard the periodic station accelerating medical research as Exploration 71/72 workers members just before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Expedition 72, pair of new crews will certainly get there aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, adhered to by Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as get the latest space station staff updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More about International Spaceport station study and 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.