.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely join the Exploration 71 workers earlier scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the firm's internet site. Discover how to stream NASA content through an assortment of platforms consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open in between the space capsule and also the place.The moment aboard, the trio will participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as adheres to (all times Eastern and conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also appreciated statements protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad is going to spend approximately six months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 as well as 72 crew participants prior to going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than two decades, folks have stayed and worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, as well as bring in analysis advances that are certainly not achievable on Earth. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to recognize and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to grow business chances in low The planet track. As commercial providers concentrate on providing human space transport solutions and also destinations as part of a sturdy reduced Planet orbit economic climate, NASA is concentrating extra information on serious area purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for potential human goals to Mars.Learn more about International Spaceport station study and also procedures 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.