.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely sign up with the Expedition 71 crew ahead of time scientific investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also 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 is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the company's website. Find out exactly how to flow NASA content by means of a wide array of systems consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space probe will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open up in between the spacecraft and also the station.Once aboard, the triad will participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as follows (all times Eastern and also subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and appreciated comments insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will definitely devote approximately six months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 as well as 72 staff participants prior to returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, people have lived and operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, and bring in investigation developments that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden commercial opportunities in reduced Planet orbit. As business providers pay attention to supplying human room transportation services as well as places as portion of a sturdy low The planet orbit economic climate, NASA is actually focusing much more resources on serious room purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for potential human objectives to Mars.Learn more concerning International Space Station study and also functions 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.