.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own amount of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically docked to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component 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 insurance coverage of hatch opening will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's web site. Hatch opening is booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA content via a wide array of platforms, consisting of social networks.Once aboard, the trio is going to join Expedition 71 workers 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. Expedition 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the orbital outpost accelerating clinical investigation as Expedition 71/72 workers participants prior to coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Exploration 72, two brand new staffs are going to come in aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as obtain the latest space station crew headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More regarding International Space Station research study and also operations 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.