.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely join the Exploration 71 staff earlier medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the company's internet site. Discover just how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will certainly open up between the space probe and the place.Once aboard, the trio is going to sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as complies with (all times Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited opinions coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to devote about six months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 team members just before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will definitely be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than two decades, people have lived and also operated constantly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and also creating investigation discoveries that are not possible on Earth. The place is an important testbed for NASA to understand as well as get over the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to grow office possibilities in reduced The planet orbit. As office business concentrate on offering human room transportation solutions and also locations as component of a robust reduced Earth orbit economic climate, NASA is concentrating extra resources on profound area objectives to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential human objectives to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station study and also 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.