.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Exploration 71 workers beforehand scientific research.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) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the company's website. Know exactly how to stream NASA information by means of a selection of systems consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will definitely open in between the spacecraft and the place.The moment aboard, the trio will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as complies with (all times Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as welcome opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to devote roughly 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Trip 71 and also 72 workers members prior to going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will certainly be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than twenty years, individuals have actually resided and operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, as well as making study developments that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get over the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand industrial opportunities in reduced Earth track. As business companies focus on providing human room transit solutions and also destinations as aspect of a durable reduced The planet orbit economic condition, NASA is actually focusing even more sources on deep room missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for future individual missions to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station analysis and 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.