.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly participate in the Expedition 71 team ahead of time clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the organization's site. Learn just how to flow NASA web content with a range of systems including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will definitely open between the space capsule as well as the place.When aboard, the trio is going to join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as observes (all times Eastern and conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome comments insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 team members before coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, individuals have actually resided and also functioned continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, and also making research breakthroughs that are actually certainly not achievable on Earth. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to know and get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend office possibilities in low Planet track. As commercial providers concentrate on offering individual room transit solutions and also locations as portion of a sturdy low Planet orbit economic climate, NASA is focusing much more resources on deep area objectives to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential human missions to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station study as well as functions 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.