.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Exploration 71 staff in advancing scientific research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the agency's web site. Know exactly how to stream NASA web content through a range of systems featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space capsule is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will definitely open in between the space capsule and the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will certainly join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking 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 as well as invited comments insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will spend approximately 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 workers members before returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than two decades, people have actually lived and also operated continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, and making analysis advances that are actually not possible in the world. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and beat the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden business possibilities in reduced Planet track. As office firms concentrate on giving individual space transportation companies as well as places as aspect of a robust low The planet track economy, NASA is actually concentrating even more sources on profound area purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for potential individual missions to Mars.Learn more regarding International Space Station investigation 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.