.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its amount 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 research laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's web site. Hatch position is actually set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA content through an assortment of platforms, consisting of social media sites.The moment aboard, the trio will certainly join Exploration 71 staff members, featuring NASA rocketeers 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 Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly spend approximately six months aboard the orbital station evolving clinical analysis as Expedition 71/72 crew participants before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's second.During Trip 72, two new teams will come in aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as get the most up to date space station staff news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More regarding International Space Station analysis and also 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.