.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely sign up with the Exploration 71 crew earlier medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the company's web site. Know just how to flow NASA web content through a selection of systems including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches will certainly open between the space probe and also the place.The moment aboard, the trio is going to sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (all times Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as appreciated opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will invest roughly 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 and 72 staff members just before coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For much more than two decades, people have actually resided and also functioned constantly aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, as well as bring in analysis advances that are actually certainly not possible on Earth. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to know and get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase commercial chances in reduced Earth orbit. As office business pay attention to providing human space transit companies and also locations as aspect of a durable low The planet track economic condition, NASA is focusing much more information on deep area objectives to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station study as well as 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.