.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Expedition 71 workers in advancing medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the firm's internet site. Learn how to flow NASA material through a variety of platforms including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space capsule is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches are going to open up in between the spacecraft as well as the station.When aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated comments protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will certainly invest about 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Exploration 71 as well as 72 crew members before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For more than twenty years, folks have stayed and operated consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, as well as creating research advances that are actually not feasible on Earth. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand as well as conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase business opportunities in low Planet track. As business providers pay attention to supplying human room transport companies as well as locations as part of a strong low Planet orbit economic climate, NASA is actually concentrating a lot more resources on serious space missions to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential human missions to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station investigation and 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.