.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will sign up with the Trip 71 crew in advancing medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the firm's internet site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA content by means of an assortment of platforms consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space capsule is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will definitely open between the spacecraft as well as the place.Once aboard, the trio is going to participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will devote around 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 staff members just before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, folks have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also making research study innovations that are actually not feasible on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to know and get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to grow industrial opportunities in low Planet orbit. As commercial companies concentrate on supplying individual space transportation solutions and also destinations as portion of a sturdy low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually centering more information on serious space purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential human objectives to Mars.Find out more regarding International Space Station research study as well as operations 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.