.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely join the Expedition 71 team in advancing scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the firm's web site. Find out exactly how to flow NASA material by means of a range of systems including social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space probe will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches will certainly open up in between the space capsule as well as the station.When aboard, the trio will sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as complies with (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and appreciated statements protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will spend about six months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 workers members just before coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, folks have resided and worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, and also creating research study innovations that are not achievable in the world. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to know as well as conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to extend industrial options in reduced The planet orbit. As commercial companies pay attention to providing human space transit solutions and destinations as component of a robust reduced Earth track economic climate, NASA is focusing even more information on profound space purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for potential individual goals to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station research and 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.