.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to sign up with the Exploration 71 staff earlier scientific study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly lift 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 application, as well as the firm's site. Learn how to stream NASA information through a selection of platforms including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the spacecraft will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches are going to open in between the space probe and the place.The moment aboard, the trio is going to 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, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as observes (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome remarks insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will spend about six months aboard the orbital laboratory as Trip 71 and also 72 team participants just before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than 20 years, folks have actually stayed and also operated consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, and also creating study innovations that are certainly not feasible in the world. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to know and also overcome the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden office possibilities in low Planet orbit. As industrial providers focus on providing individual space transport services and also places as portion of a sturdy reduced Planet track economic climate, NASA is concentrating much more resources on profound area purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential individual missions to Mars.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station investigation 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.