.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to participate in the Trip 71 workers beforehand medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the firm's internet site. Find out how to stream NASA material by means of a selection of systems featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will definitely open between the spacecraft and the station.As soon as aboard, the triad will definitely participate in 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, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also welcome opinions coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will invest about 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 crew participants just before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, individuals have stayed and also functioned continually aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, and creating research breakthroughs that are not possible in the world. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to recognize as well as eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to extend industrial possibilities in reduced Earth orbit. As business business pay attention to giving human room transport companies as well as destinations as part of a durable low Earth track economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating more sources on serious area goals to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station study and also procedures 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.