.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to join the Exploration 71 workers earlier scientific research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the organization's web site. Learn exactly how to stream NASA content by means of a variety of systems consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches will definitely open in between the space probe as well as the place.Once aboard, the triad is going to participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and welcome statements insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly devote roughly six months aboard the periodic lab as Exploration 71 and 72 workers participants prior to going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, folks have actually resided and also worked regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, and also bring in research advances that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow office possibilities in reduced Planet track. As industrial firms concentrate on giving human room transit companies as well as destinations as aspect of a strong low Earth track economic situation, NASA is centering a lot more sources on profound space missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for future individual missions to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research and also functions 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.