.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will sign up with the Trip 71 crew beforehand clinical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the company's web site. Discover just how to stream NASA information through a wide array of platforms featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will open between the spacecraft as well as the station.When aboard, the triad will certainly participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as complies with (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as appreciated comments insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly devote around 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Trip 71 as well as 72 workers participants just before going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, folks have actually lived as well as worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving technology, as well as creating research study advances that are not possible in the world. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize as well as get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase industrial opportunities in reduced Planet orbit. As business providers concentrate on supplying individual space transport solutions and also places as component of a durable low The planet orbit economic condition, NASA is concentrating extra resources on profound space missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for future individual purposes to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station research and operations 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.