.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its own amount of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's website. Hatch opening is actually arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA information through a variety of platforms, featuring social networking sites.As soon as aboard, the trio will join Expedition 71 team participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly spend approximately 6 months aboard the orbital station progressing clinical investigation as Trip 71/72 crew members prior to returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.During the course of Trip 72, two brand-new staffs are going to arrive aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed by Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as get the most up to date spaceport station team updates on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis and 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.