.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly sign up with the Exploration 71 crew beforehand clinical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the organization's web site. Discover how to flow NASA web content by means of an assortment of systems consisting of social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will certainly open in between the space capsule as well as the station.As soon as aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as complies with (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also appreciated remarks insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely invest about six months aboard the periodic lab as Exploration 71 and also 72 workers participants before returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have lived and worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, and also bring in study advancements that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to recognize as well as get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden commercial opportunities in reduced The planet track. As business providers focus on supplying human area transportation services and also destinations as aspect of a durable low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually focusing a lot more sources on profound space objectives to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for potential individual goals to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station investigation and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Sandra JonesJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.