.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will sign up with the Expedition 71 workers in advancing medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the company's internet site. Know how to flow NASA web content via a variety of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the spacecraft is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open in between the spacecraft and the place.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as follows (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as invited opinions coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to devote about 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 crew participants just before returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, people have actually resided and worked consistently aboard the International Space Station, progressing technology, and also making research study discoveries that are not achievable in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to understand as well as get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend commercial options in low Planet track. As office providers focus on offering individual space transport services and places as aspect of a durable low Planet orbit economic condition, NASA is concentrating even more sources on profound space missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future human goals to Mars.Discover more regarding International Space Station investigation and 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.