.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to participate in the Expedition 71 staff ahead of time medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the company's website. Discover how to flow NASA content by means of a selection of systems including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will definitely open up in between the space capsule as well as the station.As soon as aboard, the triad will definitely participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome remarks coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly spend around six months aboard the orbital lab as Exploration 71 and also 72 crew participants prior to returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, folks have lived and also functioned regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and also creating investigation developments that are actually not feasible on Earth. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to understand and also get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase business chances in reduced Earth orbit. As commercial companies focus on delivering human room transportation services and places as aspect of a strong reduced Earth orbit economic condition, NASA is focusing extra resources on serious space missions to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Find out more about International Spaceport station study and operations 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.