.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its amount of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's site. Hatch opening is planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA information by means of an assortment of systems, consisting of social networks.As soon as aboard, the triad will certainly participate in Expedition 71 team participants, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month stay for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will devote around six months aboard the orbital outstation progressing medical research study as Exploration 71/72 team participants before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Expedition 72, 2 brand-new teams will certainly arrive aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as obtain the latest space station workers headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station study and also 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.