.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly join the Exploration 71 crew in advancing medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will 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 certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the company's site. Learn just how to stream NASA material with an assortment of systems consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Quickly after, hatches are going to open up between the space capsule and the station.Once aboard, the trio is going to join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as complies with (all times Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome comments coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will certainly devote around six months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 and 72 crew participants prior to returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have actually stayed and also functioned regularly aboard the International Space Station, evolving accurate knowledge, and bring in research study developments that are not feasible on Earth. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to understand and overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand business opportunities in low Planet track. As office firms pay attention to supplying human room transit solutions and locations as part of a strong low Earth orbit economy, NASA is centering much more resources on profound area purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for potential human objectives to Mars.Learn more concerning International Space Station study and also functions 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.