.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its own number of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's website. Hatch opening is actually arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA web content via a range of systems, consisting of social media sites.Once aboard, the triad will participate in Expedition 71 staff members, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely invest around six months aboard the periodic station advancing medical investigation as Exploration 71/72 staff members before going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During Trip 72, two new staffs will definitely come in aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission and also receive the current space station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station research and 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.