.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly 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 join the Expedition 71 team beforehand medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the company's web site. Know exactly how to flow NASA information via a variety of platforms including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the space probe is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open up in between the space probe and the place.The moment aboard, the trio will definitely join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as follows (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also welcome opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 workers participants before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, folks have resided and worked continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, as well as bring in analysis innovations that are not achievable on Earth. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to expand business possibilities in reduced The planet track. As industrial business focus on delivering human space transport companies and also locations as component of a durable low Earth orbit economic climate, NASA is actually concentrating much more information on profound area missions to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for potential individual goals to Mars.Find out more regarding International Space 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.