.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly sign up with the Expedition 71 workers beforehand clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the agency's internet site. Find out exactly how to flow NASA content with a range of platforms including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space probe is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches are going to open in between the space probe as well as the station.The moment aboard, the triad is going to sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome comments protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to spend around six months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 as well as 72 crew participants prior to returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, people have actually resided and also functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, as well as bring in study innovations that are not feasible in the world. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize and overcome the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend business possibilities in reduced Planet track. As industrial business focus on delivering human area transportation companies and also places as part of a sturdy reduced The planet orbit economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating extra information on profound room purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential human missions to Mars.Learn more about International Space Station analysis and 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.