.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Expedition 71 workers ahead of time medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also 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 stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the firm's website. Discover how to stream NASA information through a variety of systems consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space probe will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches are going to open up in between the spacecraft as well as the place.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as complies with (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as welcome comments insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly invest about six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 team members just before returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, folks have actually resided and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, progressing technology, and also making study advancements that are actually certainly not possible on Earth. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand as well as conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend business possibilities in low Earth orbit. As business business pay attention to offering individual area transport solutions as well as destinations as portion of a robust low Planet orbit economy, NASA is actually concentrating extra information on serious room objectives to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for future human purposes to Mars.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.