.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will sign up with the Exploration 71 crew earlier medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the agency's web site. Know exactly how to flow NASA content by means of an assortment of platforms featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space probe will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will definitely open in between the spacecraft and the station.The moment aboard, the trio will participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited comments protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to devote about 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Trip 71 and also 72 workers members before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This will definitely be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, individuals have actually resided and also functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and bring in research innovations that are actually certainly not possible in the world. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden industrial opportunities in reduced Planet track. As industrial business pay attention to providing human room transportation solutions and locations as part of a sturdy reduced Earth track economy, NASA is actually focusing extra sources on profound area objectives to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential human objectives to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station study and operations 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.