.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own variety of residents to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule automatically docked to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site. Hatch position is booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to stream NASA information via a variety of systems, featuring social media.When aboard, the triad is going to sign up with Trip 71 team participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will invest about 6 months aboard the periodic outstation progressing medical research as Exploration 71/72 team members before coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's second.Throughout Exploration 72, two brand-new crews are going to show up aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, followed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his mission and get the current spaceport station crew information on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.