.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, taking its own amount of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time frame.After a two-orbit, three-hour adventure to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe automatically docked to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position are going to stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's site. Hatch position is planned to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to stream NASA information by means of a wide array of platforms, including social media sites.The moment aboard, the trio will definitely sign up with Exploration 71 team members, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Trip 72 will definitely begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going station leader Kononenko, finishing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long expedition for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to invest approximately six months aboard the orbital station evolving medical analysis as Exploration 71/72 workers members prior to coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This is Pettit and also Ovchinin's 4th spaceflight and Vagner's second.Throughout Exploration 72, two new crews will definitely show up aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed through Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his goal and obtain the latest space station team news on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More about International Spaceport station analysis 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.