.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, carrying its own lot of residents 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 lab's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft 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 position are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's site. Hatch position is actually set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA material via a range of platforms, featuring social networking sites.Once aboard, the triad will definitely join Trip 71 crew participants, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to invest about 6 months aboard the orbital station advancing medical research as Expedition 71/72 crew members prior to coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Expedition 72, pair of new workers will show up aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, adhered to by Crew-10, arranged for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his mission and receive the most up to date space station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station research study and operations 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.