.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, bringing its amount of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website. Hatch position is actually arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA material through a selection of platforms, consisting of social media sites.Once aboard, the trio will join Exploration 71 team participants, consisting of 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, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 is going to start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to spend approximately 6 months aboard the orbital outstation advancing medical research study as Exploration 71/72 workers members prior to returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.During Expedition 72, 2 brand-new teams are going to get there aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, observed through Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective and get the current spaceport station staff news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station investigation and also 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.