.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Expedition 71 workers in advancing clinical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the organization's web site. Know just how to flow NASA content through an assortment of systems including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space probe will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches are going to open between the spacecraft as well as the station.The moment aboard, the trio is going to participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as invited opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely devote around six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 workers participants before coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, people have actually resided and also operated constantly aboard the International Space Station, progressing technology, as well as creating research study advances that are not feasible on Earth. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to know and conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow business options in reduced The planet orbit. As office firms focus on giving individual area transit companies and also destinations as part of a strong low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating even more resources on serious area purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for future individual purposes to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station study as well as 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.