.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its variety of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe instantly anchored to the orbiting 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 insurance coverage of hatch opening will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's website. Hatch opening is set up to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA web content through a variety of systems, featuring social networking sites.The moment aboard, the triad will sign up with Trip 71 team members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place leader Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to devote roughly 6 months aboard the orbital outstation advancing medical study as Exploration 71/72 staff participants prior to coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.In the course of Expedition 72, 2 new teams will definitely arrive aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as obtain the most up to date space station workers information on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station analysis as well as 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.