.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its number of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting lab'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 protection of hatch opening will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's internet site. Hatch position is actually planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA web content through a wide array of platforms, including social networks.The moment aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with Trip 71 team participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month stay for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly invest about six months aboard the orbital outstation progressing scientific investigation as Expedition 71/72 team participants just before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Exploration 72, pair of brand-new staffs will definitely get here aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, complied with through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his purpose and get the most up to date space station staff updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more concerning International Space Station investigation 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.