.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely participate in the Expedition 71 staff in advancing medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly 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 definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the firm's internet site. Know exactly how to flow NASA web content by means of a selection of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space probe will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Shortly after, hatches will open between the space probe and the station.As soon as aboard, the triad will join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also invited comments coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will certainly invest approximately six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 crew members before going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, folks have stayed as well as functioned regularly aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also creating investigation advancements that are actually not achievable on Earth. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand as well as get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand office chances in low Earth orbit. As industrial firms concentrate on offering human room transportation solutions and places as part of a strong low Planet orbit economy, NASA is actually concentrating even more information on deep room purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential individual goals to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.