.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its number of homeowners to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically anchored to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will definitely stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website. Hatch opening is planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA web content by means of an assortment of platforms, consisting of social networks.When aboard, the trio will certainly participate in Exploration 71 workers participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will certainly begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly spend around 6 months aboard the orbital outstation evolving clinical research as Expedition 71/72 workers members just before returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.During Trip 72, two new crews will definitely get there aboard the space station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, followed by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective and also get the current spaceport station crew news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station study as well as procedures 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.