.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its lot of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's web site. Hatch position is actually scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA content by means of an assortment of systems, consisting of social networking sites.Once aboard, the trio is going to participate in Trip 71 crew participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly spend about six months aboard the orbital outpost evolving medical research study as Trip 71/72 team participants prior to returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Trip 72, pair of brand new crews will get there aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his objective and also receive the latest space station staff news on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more about International Spaceport station study 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.