.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to participate in the Exploration 71 team earlier medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the organization's web site. Discover how to stream NASA information through a variety of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will open between the space probe and also the place.The moment aboard, the trio will participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as follows (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome statements coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will definitely devote approximately six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 crew participants prior to going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, people have resided and functioned continually aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, and bring in investigation breakthroughs that are not achievable in the world. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to know and conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden business opportunities in reduced The planet track. As industrial firms pay attention to offering individual area transportation services and also locations as aspect of a sturdy reduced Planet orbit economy, NASA is concentrating even more information on deep room goals to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential individual missions to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.