.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely sign up with the Trip 71 workers beforehand clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as 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.Insurance coverage will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the agency's website. Find out exactly how to stream NASA content with a range of systems featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches will certainly open in between the spacecraft and the station.As soon as aboard, the trio is going to participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and invited comments coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely spend around 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Trip 71 and also 72 team participants just before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, individuals have actually resided as well as operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, and bring in analysis breakthroughs that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and also conquer the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase commercial possibilities in low Planet track. As industrial providers pay attention to supplying human room transportation solutions and places as component of a sturdy low The planet track economy, NASA is actually concentrating a lot more sources on serious space purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for future human goals to Mars.Discover more about International Spaceport station research study and also 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.