.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, carrying its variety of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site. Hatch position is actually scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA material via a variety of platforms, featuring social media sites.Once aboard, the triad will certainly join Expedition 71 staff members, 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, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month stay for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely spend approximately 6 months aboard the periodic outpost advancing clinical analysis as Trip 71/72 team participants just before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Expedition 72, pair of brand new workers will definitely show up aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, observed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his purpose and also receive the most recent space station staff information on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Space Station analysis as well as 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.