.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly sign up with the Trip 71 staff in advancing clinical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the organization's website. Discover how to stream NASA material with a selection of platforms consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open between the space probe and the station.When aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited comments protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly spend around six months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 workers participants before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, folks have actually lived as well as operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and making research study breakthroughs that are certainly not achievable in the world. The station is actually an important testbed for NASA to know as well as conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow commercial options in low Planet orbit. As business business concentrate on giving individual room transport companies and also places as portion of a sturdy reduced The planet track economic climate, NASA is actually concentrating extra information on profound area purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for future human objectives to Mars.Learn more about International Spaceport station research study and functions 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.