.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its variety of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour experience to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element 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 protection of hatch position are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's website. Hatch opening is arranged to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA information via an assortment of systems, featuring social media sites.The moment aboard, the triad is going to sign up with Exploration 71 team members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson as well as a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will invest around six months aboard the periodic outpost accelerating clinical study as Expedition 71/72 team members just before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's second.During Expedition 72, 2 new staffs will definitely get here aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, observed by Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his goal and obtain the latest space station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More about International Space Station analysis as well as 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.