.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own amount of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's website. Hatch position is actually set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA web content through a variety of systems, consisting of social networking sites.When aboard, the trio will definitely join Expedition 71 staff members, consisting of NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly spend around six months aboard the orbital outstation evolving scientific research study as Expedition 71/72 staff participants just before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During Trip 72, two new staffs are going to arrive aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, observed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also acquire the latest spaceport station team news on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Spaceport station research and operations 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.