.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its amount of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover period.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch opening will certainly stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site. Hatch position is set up to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content by means of a wide array of platforms, consisting of social media sites.Once aboard, the triad is going to join Expedition 71 staff members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month keep for Dyson and a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly devote about 6 months aboard the periodic outpost evolving scientific investigation as Trip 71/72 crew participants just before going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit and also Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and Vagner's second.During Expedition 72, two brand-new crews will certainly show up aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, complied with by Crew-10, planned for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his objective and also acquire the current space station workers information on Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station study 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.