.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly sign up with the Exploration 71 team in advancing clinical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the organization's web site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA web content via an assortment of platforms consisting of social networks.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 laboratory's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open up in between the spacecraft and also the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and invited remarks protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will definitely invest approximately 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 workers members prior to 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 also the second for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, folks have actually stayed and also operated continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, and also bring in study breakthroughs that are certainly not achievable on Earth. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to recognize and also get over the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden commercial possibilities in low The planet track. As business firms concentrate on offering human room transport services and also places as part of a robust low The planet orbit economic climate, NASA is focusing much more information on profound room goals to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for potential human purposes to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station investigation and also 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.