.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its amount of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically docked to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site. Hatch opening is actually scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA content with a selection of platforms, including social networking sites.Once aboard, the trio will definitely participate in Expedition 71 workers participants, featuring NASA rocketeers 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 Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely devote about six months aboard the periodic outstation evolving scientific research study as Exploration 71/72 crew members just before going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Exploration 72, 2 brand-new crews will definitely come in aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, observed by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as acquire the current space station staff headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More about International Space Station investigation as well as operations 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.