.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to join the Expedition 71 crew earlier medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will stream on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the firm's internet site. Discover exactly how to stream NASA material by means of a variety of platforms consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the space capsule is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches will definitely open up in between the space probe and the station.Once aboard, the triad will certainly join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as complies with (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome remarks protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to spend roughly 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 as well as 72 team participants just before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This are going to be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For much more than two decades, folks have lived and worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, and bring in research developments that are actually not possible in the world. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and beat the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand business opportunities in reduced The planet track. As business companies concentrate on giving human area transit services and places as portion of a robust low Earth orbit economic climate, NASA is actually focusing a lot more sources on profound room purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for potential human goals to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station research as well as 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.