.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly sign up with the Trip 71 workers earlier clinical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the organization's website. Know just how to stream NASA content through a range of platforms featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the spacecraft will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open up in between the space probe and the station.As soon as aboard, the triad will definitely join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and also subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and welcome remarks insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely devote approximately six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Trip 71 and 72 crew participants just before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than two decades, people have resided and worked regularly aboard the International Space Station, advancing accurate knowledge, and also creating research study discoveries that are actually not feasible in the world. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to understand and beat the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden office options in low Planet orbit. As business providers focus on offering human area transportation companies as well as places as aspect of a robust reduced Planet orbit economy, NASA is focusing much more resources on deep room purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future human purposes to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station analysis as well as procedures 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.