.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its lot of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site. Hatch opening is arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA content through a variety of systems, featuring social networks.Once aboard, the trio is going to participate in Trip 71 crew participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly invest approximately six months aboard the orbital outpost accelerating medical analysis as Exploration 71/72 workers participants just before going back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Expedition 72, 2 new staffs will certainly get there aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, observed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his purpose and acquire the current spaceport station workers information on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station investigation 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.