.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, carrying its amount of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component 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 opening will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site. Hatch opening is actually planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social networks.The moment aboard, the trio will definitely participate in Expedition 71 team members, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely spend approximately six months aboard the orbital outstation advancing scientific research as Exploration 71/72 crew members before returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Exploration 72, 2 new workers are going to show up aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with by Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission and also acquire the most recent spaceport station workers information on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station study as well as 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.