.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, carrying its own lot of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically dropped anchor 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 coverage of hatch position will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's web site. Hatch position is actually scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA content by means of a selection of platforms, consisting of social media sites.As soon as aboard, the triad will sign up with Expedition 71 workers members, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 is going to begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will spend around 6 months aboard the orbital station accelerating scientific study as Expedition 71/72 staff members just before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.Throughout Exploration 72, pair of new crews will get there aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his goal and also receive the most recent space station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station investigation and also functions 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.