.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely sign up with the Expedition 71 staff beforehand clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the agency's web site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA content by means of an assortment of systems featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space capsule is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will definitely open in between the space capsule as well as the place.Once aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will certainly devote around six months aboard the orbital laboratory as Trip 71 and 72 staff participants just before going back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will definitely be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have lived and functioned continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating accurate knowledge, as well as bring in research innovations that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to understand as well as get over the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase commercial possibilities in low The planet orbit. As industrial providers focus on giving human room transport services and destinations as aspect of a robust low Earth orbit economic climate, NASA is actually concentrating much more information on deep room goals to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future individual missions to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station investigation 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.Sandra JonesJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.