.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, came to the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, carrying its own variety of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe immediately anchored to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's web site. Hatch opening is actually planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content through a selection of systems, consisting of social networks.Once aboard, the trio will certainly join Exploration 71 staff members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month remain for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to spend around 6 months aboard the periodic outstation progressing clinical research as Exploration 71/72 crew participants prior to going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.In the course of Trip 72, pair of brand new crews are going to show up aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his purpose and acquire the latest space station staff headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study and also operations 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.