.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its own number of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site. Hatch position is actually booked to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA material with an assortment of platforms, including social media sites.Once aboard, the trio will join Exploration 71 team participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going station leader Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will devote about six months aboard the orbital outpost accelerating clinical analysis as Expedition 71/72 staff members just before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Trip 72, two brand new teams will arrive aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to by Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective and also receive the current space station staff news on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More about International Spaceport station research 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.