.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its own number of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's website. Hatch position is scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA material through a wide array of systems, including social networks.When aboard, the trio is going to sign up with Expedition 71 team members, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, completing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to spend about 6 months aboard the orbital outpost progressing medical research study as Exploration 71/72 workers members before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's second.During Expedition 72, 2 new staffs will come in aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed by Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal and get the most up to date space station workers updates on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station study 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.