.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its own variety of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule instantly docked to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 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 app, YouTube, and also the company's website. Hatch position is actually arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA web content by means of a wide array of platforms, featuring social networks.The moment aboard, the triad is going to join Expedition 71 staff members, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly spend roughly six months aboard the orbital station advancing medical study as Exploration 71/72 workers members prior to going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.During the course of Expedition 72, 2 brand-new crews are going to show up aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective and acquire the latest space station team information on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More concerning International Space Station investigation as well as operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.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.