.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly sign up with the Exploration 71 workers beforehand medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the company's web site. Know exactly how to stream NASA web content with a selection of systems featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space probe will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches will open up between the space capsule as well as the place.As soon as aboard, the trio will participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as complies with (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited remarks coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely spend about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Trip 71 and 72 team participants just before going back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than two decades, people have stayed and also functioned regularly aboard the International Space Station, evolving accurate knowledge, and also making research discoveries that are not possible in the world. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend office possibilities in reduced The planet orbit. As office providers focus on giving individual area transit solutions and also locations as part of a strong reduced The planet orbit economy, NASA is actually centering a lot more sources on profound area objectives to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future individual goals to Mars.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station analysis and 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.Sandra JonesJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.