.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Exploration 71 team ahead of time clinical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the firm's internet site. Discover just how to flow NASA web content by means of a range of platforms including social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space probe is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will certainly open in between the space probe and also the place.Once aboard, the triad will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as appreciated remarks coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly devote approximately 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 as well as 72 workers participants just before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, folks have actually stayed and also worked consistently aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, and creating research study discoveries that are actually not achievable on Earth. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to understand as well as conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend industrial chances in reduced Planet track. As commercial companies concentrate on delivering human room transit solutions and also destinations as aspect of a sturdy low Earth track economy, NASA is actually concentrating a lot more information on deep space missions to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Learn more about International Spaceport station research 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.