.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, came to the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own number of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet module at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's protection of hatch opening will certainly flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site. Hatch opening is actually arranged to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to stream NASA web content via a selection of platforms, consisting of social networks.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely join Trip 71 crew participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, finishing a six-month stay for Dyson and a year-long exploration for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely invest approximately six months aboard the orbital outstation progressing medical study as Trip 71/72 team participants prior to coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is actually Pettit and Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Trip 72, two brand new staffs will get there aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his mission and acquire the latest spaceport station team headlines on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more regarding International Space Station investigation and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- edge-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Leah CheshierJohnson Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.