.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Expedition 71 crew in advancing medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the agency's web site. Find out just how to flow NASA material by means of an assortment of platforms consisting of social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will definitely open in between the space capsule as well as the station.The moment aboard, the trio will sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also welcome comments insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad is going to devote approximately 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 crew participants before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, individuals have stayed as well as operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, and also creating analysis discoveries that are actually certainly not possible on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to increase business options in low Earth track. As office firms pay attention to providing individual room transportation companies as well as places as portion of a sturdy reduced The planet track economy, NASA is actually focusing even more resources on serious space missions to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station study and 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.