.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to sign up with the Expedition 71 workers ahead of time medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the organization's internet site. Learn exactly how to stream NASA information via a selection of platforms consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will definitely open up between the spacecraft and the station.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad is going to devote approximately 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Trip 71 and also 72 crew participants prior to going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, folks have stayed and operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, and also creating analysis innovations that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to recognize and also conquer the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to expand industrial options in low Planet track. As commercial companies pay attention to giving individual room transport solutions and destinations as part of a durable low The planet track economic situation, NASA is centering much more resources on profound area purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future human purposes to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station study and 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.