.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely participate in the Expedition 71 workers beforehand medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the firm's web site. Learn how to stream NASA web content with a variety of platforms consisting of social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches will open up in between the spacecraft and the place.The moment aboard, the triad is going to sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as complies with (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome comments protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 workers participants prior to coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, individuals have resided as well as operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and creating investigation advances that are not feasible on Earth. The place is a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend office chances in reduced Earth orbit. As business business pay attention to delivering human room transport companies and destinations as aspect of a durable reduced Earth track economy, NASA is focusing extra information on deep area goals to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential human purposes to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station research and also 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.