.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will join the Trip 71 team beforehand clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the organization's website. Find out exactly how to flow NASA content via an assortment of systems consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space capsule is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open up between the space probe as well as the station.Once aboard, the trio will sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern and also conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited remarks coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will spend approximately 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 workers members just before coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, individuals have lived as well as worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and creating investigation breakthroughs that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to recognize and get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden business possibilities in low Planet track. As commercial providers focus on supplying individual area transport solutions and also destinations as aspect of a robust reduced The planet orbit economy, NASA is focusing extra resources on serious room missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for future human purposes to Mars.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station analysis as well as functions 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.