.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will join the Trip 71 workers ahead of time clinical analysis.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.Insurance coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the firm's internet site. Find out how to flow NASA material via a range of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Shortly after, hatches are going to open up between the space probe and the station.When aboard, the trio is going to participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and also subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and appreciated comments coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely invest around six months aboard the periodic lab as Exploration 71 and 72 crew participants prior to going back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than two decades, folks have lived and operated consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, as well as creating analysis developments that are actually not achievable on Earth. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize as well as conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase commercial possibilities in reduced The planet orbit. As business business focus on offering individual room transportation services and destinations as part of a durable reduced Planet track economic situation, NASA is focusing more resources on profound room purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential individual missions to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station analysis 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.