.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly join the Trip 71 team ahead of time scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the organization's site. Discover how to stream NASA information with a wide array of platforms featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will open in between the space probe and the station.Once aboard, the trio will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (all times Eastern and also subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also welcome opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will devote approximately six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Trip 71 as well as 72 workers participants just before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than 20 years, folks have actually resided and also operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, and making research advancements that are actually not achievable on Earth. The place is an important testbed for NASA to know and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend office possibilities in low The planet orbit. As industrial business focus on supplying individual space transit solutions and also destinations as part of a strong low The planet orbit economic climate, NASA is concentrating extra resources on deep space objectives to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future human objectives to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.