.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its own lot of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's web site. Hatch position is booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content by means of an assortment of platforms, including social media sites.When aboard, the triad will participate in Expedition 71 workers members, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long exploration for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to devote approximately six months aboard the periodic outstation accelerating clinical analysis as Expedition 71/72 team members before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.Throughout Exploration 72, pair of brand new teams will definitely show up aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, complied with through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective and acquire the most up to date space station staff updates on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More about International Space Station analysis and functions 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.