.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely sign up with the Exploration 71 team earlier scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the agency's site. Know how to stream NASA content via a range of platforms consisting of social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space probe will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches will definitely open in between the space probe as well as the place.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome remarks insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will certainly spend about six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 team members prior to returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have actually resided and operated continuously aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, and creating research study breakthroughs that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as conquer the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to expand office possibilities in reduced Planet orbit. As industrial business pay attention to delivering individual space transportation companies as well as locations as aspect of a strong low Planet track economy, NASA is actually concentrating more information on serious space purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for future human purposes to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station analysis 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.