.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely participate in the Trip 71 crew earlier clinical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the firm's web site. Find out just how to flow NASA web content via a range of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches are going to open up between the spacecraft as well as the station.When aboard, the triad is going to participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as complies with (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited comments coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 crew members just before going back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, people have actually lived and operated continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also bring in research advancements that are actually certainly not possible in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and also eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend industrial chances in low The planet orbit. As business business focus on offering human space transport services and places as component of a sturdy reduced Planet track economic situation, NASA is actually focusing more information on profound space objectives to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for potential individual purposes to Mars.Discover more regarding International Space Station research and operations 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.