.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely participate in the Trip 71 workers in advancing medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend 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 the agency's website. Learn how to stream NASA material via a wide array of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space capsule is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches will certainly open between the space probe and the place.When aboard, the trio will sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as welcome comments coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will spend approximately six months aboard the orbital lab as Trip 71 and 72 team members just before coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will certainly be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, people have lived and functioned constantly aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, and creating research study innovations that are actually not feasible on Earth. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to understand and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden office options in low Planet orbit. As business business focus on giving individual room transport solutions and locations as aspect of a durable low The planet track economic situation, NASA is concentrating even more information on deep area goals to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for potential individual missions to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station investigation as well as procedures 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.