.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its own lot of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's web site. Hatch opening is booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA web content through a variety of systems, featuring social networking sites.The moment aboard, the triad is going to participate in Trip 71 staff participants, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly spend approximately six months aboard the periodic outstation advancing medical investigation as Trip 71/72 team members just before going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Trip 72, two brand-new workers are going to get there aboard the spaceport station, featuring NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, adhered to through Crew-10, booked for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as get the most recent space station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More regarding International Space Station investigation and also 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.