.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely sign up with the Trip 71 staff in advancing clinical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the agency's site. Learn how to stream NASA material via a variety of systems featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open between the space capsule as well as the place.The moment aboard, the trio will participate in NASA rocketeers 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 Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and appreciated remarks insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely devote about 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Exploration 71 and also 72 crew participants before going back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than two decades, people have stayed as well as worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, and also creating investigation discoveries that are not possible on Earth. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to understand and eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase office chances in low Earth orbit. As business providers focus on supplying human room transportation services and also places as component of a robust low The planet track economy, NASA is actually centering a lot more sources on serious room missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for future human objectives to Mars.Find out more regarding International Space Station research 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.