.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will 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 certainly join the Exploration 71 crew in advancing medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the firm's internet site. Learn just how to stream NASA material via a selection of platforms consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches are going to open up in between the space probe and also the place.Once aboard, the triad is going to participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and also subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also invited comments protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly invest about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Trip 71 as well as 72 team participants just before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, individuals have actually resided and functioned continually aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, as well as bring in analysis developments that are not feasible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase industrial options in low Earth track. As industrial business pay attention to delivering human space transit solutions and destinations as part of a robust low Planet orbit economic condition, NASA is actually focusing more sources on profound room purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for potential human purposes to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport 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.