.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its variety of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's web site. Hatch opening is actually arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA material by means of a wide array of systems, featuring social media sites.When aboard, the triad will join Trip 71 staff participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to invest roughly 6 months aboard the periodic outpost evolving medical investigation as Expedition 71/72 team members just before coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Expedition 72, 2 brand-new teams are going to get here aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also receive the latest space station team updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station research as well as procedures 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.