.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will sign up with the Trip 71 staff ahead of time medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the agency's internet site. Find out just how to stream NASA content through a wide array of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space capsule will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will certainly open in between the space probe and the station.Once aboard, the trio is going to sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as adheres to (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and invited opinions coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will devote around six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 team participants prior to going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than two decades, people have resided and worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, and also creating investigation advancements that are actually certainly not possible in the world. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden office chances in low Earth track. As business providers pay attention to supplying individual area transport solutions as well as destinations as portion of a sturdy low Planet orbit economy, NASA is centering a lot more sources on profound room purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for potential individual objectives to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station investigation as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.