.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, carrying its amount of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's internet site. Hatch position is actually scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA content through a range of systems, consisting of social networks.Once aboard, the triad will certainly join Trip 71 crew members, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will spend around 6 months aboard the periodic outstation advancing medical study as Expedition 71/72 staff members prior to returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Trip 72, 2 brand-new crews are going to arrive aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his mission and also receive the most recent spaceport station workers headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More about International Spaceport station investigation and also 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.