.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, bringing its amount of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly docked to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's site. Hatch position is planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA web content by means of a range of platforms, featuring social media sites.When aboard, the trio will join Trip 71 workers members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month stay for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital station progressing clinical research as Exploration 71/72 team members just before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Exploration 72, pair of brand new staffs will get there aboard the space station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, followed through Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his purpose and acquire the most recent space station staff information on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More concerning International Space Station study and 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.