.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, reached the International Space Station Wednesday, delivering its amount of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically docked to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch position will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's web site. Hatch position is scheduled to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA content through a selection of systems, featuring social media.As soon as aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with Trip 71 staff members, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Exploration 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month stay for Dyson and also a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to invest around 6 months aboard the periodic outstation accelerating scientific study as Exploration 71/72 staff participants just before going back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.During the course of Exploration 72, 2 new workers will definitely show up aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 releasing in September, complied with by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his mission as well as obtain the most up to date space station team information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More regarding International Spaceport station research study and also operations 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.