.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to participate in the Expedition 71 staff beforehand scientific study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the organization's site. Discover just how to stream NASA information through a range of systems including social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space capsule is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will certainly open up between the space capsule and also the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as observes (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as appreciated statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will definitely devote about six months aboard the periodic lab as Trip 71 as well as 72 workers members prior to returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will certainly be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, individuals have resided and also functioned continually aboard the International Space Station, progressing technology, and bring in analysis discoveries that are not feasible in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to understand and also eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase industrial options in low Earth orbit. As industrial firms pay attention to providing human area transport companies and destinations as component of a robust low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is centering more information on serious room purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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.