.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its variety of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour trip to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft immediately dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position will flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's site. Hatch opening is set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA content with a wide array of platforms, featuring social media.When aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with Expedition 71 team members, including NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to invest roughly six months aboard the orbital outstation advancing scientific analysis as Trip 71/72 workers members before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and also Vagner's second.Throughout Expedition 72, pair of brand-new staffs are going to get here aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, adhered to through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as get the current space station workers news on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more concerning International Space Station analysis 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.