.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own amount of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site. Hatch position is booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA web content through a selection of systems, consisting of social media.When aboard, the trio is going to participate in Trip 71 workers participants, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will spend around 6 months aboard the periodic outpost accelerating scientific research study as Exploration 71/72 workers members just before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Exploration 72, two new teams will show up aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, observed through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission as well as receive the latest space station crew updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Space Station analysis and also 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.