.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its number of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's website. Hatch opening is set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA material by means of a range of systems, consisting of social networks.The moment aboard, the trio is going to sign up with Expedition 71 team participants, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic station accelerating medical investigation as Trip 71/72 crew participants before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.During Expedition 72, 2 brand-new staffs will certainly get here aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed by Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his goal as well as acquire the most recent space station crew headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More about International Space Station research and also procedures 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.