.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly sign up with the Exploration 71 staff ahead of time scientific research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the firm's internet site. Know how to flow NASA information with a variety of platforms featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches will definitely open up in between the space capsule and also the place.When aboard, the trio will participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and invited opinions coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly devote roughly 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 team participants before coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, individuals have actually resided and also operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, and also making research study discoveries that are actually not feasible in the world. The place is an important testbed for NASA to understand as well as beat the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend industrial options in reduced Earth track. As business providers concentrate on offering human room transport companies and also places as part of a sturdy reduced Earth track economic condition, NASA is concentrating more resources on deep area missions to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for potential 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.