.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its amount of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule instantly anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe 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 flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's website. Hatch opening is planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA content by means of a variety of systems, including social media.Once aboard, the trio will definitely participate in Expedition 71 crew members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely invest about six months aboard the orbital outpost progressing medical research as Expedition 71/72 team members before coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, 2 brand-new teams will show up aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his mission and get the latest spaceport station crew news on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station research as well as functions 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.