.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 Space Station where they will join the Exploration 71 crew ahead of time medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely take off 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 flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the company's internet site. Learn how to flow NASA web content with a variety of platforms including social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space capsule is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will open between the space probe as well as the place.Once aboard, the triad is going to sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and invited comments protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad is going to invest about six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 crew participants just before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, folks have actually stayed as well as worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, and bring in investigation advances that are actually not possible in the world. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to know and also overcome the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand office options in reduced Earth track. As commercial companies pay attention to supplying individual room transportation companies as well as destinations as portion of a sturdy low Planet orbit economic condition, NASA is centering extra sources on deep room purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future human goals to Mars.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station research study as well as procedures 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.