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NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Get To Space Station

.NASA astronaut Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, reached the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, taking its number of individuals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting lab's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space capsule gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch position will definitely flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's website. Hatch position is actually planned to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn exactly how to flow NASA content by means of a variety of platforms, including social networks.When aboard, the trio will join Expedition 71 workers participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the departure of Dyson, Chub, as well as off-going place leader Kononenko, completing a six-month visit for Dyson and also a year-long expedition for Chub and also Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly devote around 6 months aboard the periodic outpost advancing medical study as Exploration 71/72 crew participants before returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This is Pettit and Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight and also Vagner's second.Throughout Expedition 72, two new crews will get here aboard the spaceport station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launching in September, observed by Crew-10, scheduled for launch in February 2025..Comply With Pettit on X throughout his objective as well as obtain the latest spaceport station team news on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More about International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.