.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its own variety of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site. Hatch opening is scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA information by means of a wide array of platforms, consisting of social media.Once aboard, the triad will certainly participate in Trip 71 staff members, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will invest around 6 months aboard the periodic station evolving clinical research as Exploration 71/72 workers members before coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Expedition 72, pair of new staffs will definitely come in aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as obtain the latest space station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More concerning International Space Station analysis and 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.