.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly join the Exploration 71 staff beforehand clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the organization's internet site. Know exactly how to flow NASA material by means of a variety of platforms featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open in between the spacecraft and the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will certainly join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as follows (all times Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also invited remarks protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will invest about 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Exploration 71 as well as 72 crew members prior to returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, individuals have actually stayed and also functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating accurate knowledge, as well as bring in analysis breakthroughs that are not feasible in the world. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to know and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend business opportunities in low Planet track. As business firms concentrate on delivering human room transit companies and places as part of a durable reduced The planet orbit economy, NASA is concentrating much more information on serious space missions to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.Learn more about International Spaceport station research and also procedures 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.