.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its number of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically anchored to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site. Hatch position is set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA content by means of an assortment of platforms, consisting of social media sites.As soon as aboard, the trio will sign up with Exploration 71 staff participants, including NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station commander Kononenko, completing a six-month stay for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly invest about six months aboard the orbital outpost evolving medical investigation as Expedition 71/72 team participants before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Trip 72, 2 new crews will certainly arrive aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, observed through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his mission and receive the latest spaceport station staff updates on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More regarding International Space Station analysis and procedures 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.