Space

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Come To Spaceport Station

.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, got to the International Space Station Wednesday, carrying its own lot of citizens to 12 for the 13-day handover time period.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the station, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft automatically dropped anchor to the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe launched at 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's insurance coverage of hatch position are going to flow at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's website. Hatch position is actually booked to begin at 5:50 p.m. Learn just how to flow NASA web content via a selection of platforms, consisting of social media.Once aboard, the trio will certainly join Exploration 71 team participants, featuring NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will begin Monday, Sept. 23, upon the variation of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going place commander Kononenko, completing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub as well as Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to spend about 6 months aboard the periodic outpost progressing scientific investigation as Expedition 71/72 crew participants before returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.Throughout Expedition 72, two brand-new staffs will come in aboard the spaceport station, consisting of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, complied with by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Follow Pettit on X throughout his mission and also receive the latest spaceport station team updates on Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station research as well as procedures 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.