.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its own variety of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically docked to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming 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, and also the organization's internet site. Hatch position is planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA content with an assortment of systems, featuring social networking sites.The moment aboard, the trio will definitely participate in Trip 71 crew participants, featuring NASA rocketeers 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, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely invest around six months aboard the periodic station evolving scientific study as Exploration 71/72 workers participants before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Trip 72, pair of new staffs will come in aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his goal and also acquire the most recent space station workers updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station research and also procedures 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.