.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely 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 participate in the Expedition 71 team ahead of time medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to 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 certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the agency's website. Discover just how to stream NASA web content via an assortment of platforms consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space probe is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Quickly after, hatches will open between the spacecraft and also the place.Once aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also invited remarks insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely spend about six months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 as well as 72 workers participants just before returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than 20 years, people have stayed and also worked continually aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and creating study innovations that are actually certainly not possible in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to understand and also eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow office options in low Earth track. As office providers concentrate on giving human space transport companies and places as aspect of a durable low Planet orbit economy, NASA is actually focusing a lot more information on deep area missions to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future human purposes to Mars.Learn more regarding International Space Station research study and also operations 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.