.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its amount of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically anchored to the orbiting research 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) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's website. Hatch position is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA information by means of a range of systems, including social networking sites.Once aboard, the triad will participate in Exploration 71 workers members, featuring NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely spend roughly 6 months aboard the periodic station evolving medical research study as Trip 71/72 team participants just before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's second.In the course of Trip 72, 2 brand new staffs are going to get here aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, followed through Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Observe Pettit on X throughout his purpose and obtain the most up to date spaceport station staff headlines on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station study and 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.