.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Trip 71 workers in advancing medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the firm's website. Learn exactly how to stream NASA material via a range of systems consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the space probe will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches are going to open in between the space capsule and the station.The moment aboard, the triad is going to join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and invited statements insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will definitely spend approximately six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 workers members just before returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have actually stayed and also worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and bring in research study discoveries that are actually not possible in the world. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to know as well as conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow commercial opportunities in reduced Earth orbit. As industrial firms focus on providing individual space transport solutions and destinations as portion of a sturdy low Earth orbit economy, NASA is focusing even more resources on profound room purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for future individual objectives to Mars.Learn more about 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.