.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly sign up with the Exploration 71 workers ahead of time medical research study.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.Insurance coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the organization's website. Discover just how to flow NASA web content with a variety of platforms featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches are going to open up in between the space capsule and the station.When aboard, the trio is going to sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome remarks protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely devote about six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Trip 71 as well as 72 crew members before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, individuals have stayed as well as operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, progressing accurate knowledge, and also bring in research discoveries that are actually not possible on Earth. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow commercial options in reduced Earth orbit. As commercial firms focus on offering human space transit companies as well as places as component of a robust low Earth track economic climate, NASA is actually centering a lot more resources on profound space goals to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future individual objectives to Mars.Discover more regarding International Space Station research study and operations 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.