.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly sign up with the Trip 71 staff earlier scientific analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the company's web site. Discover exactly how to flow NASA content with an assortment of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches will definitely open up between the spacecraft and also the place.The moment aboard, the triad is going to join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as follows (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome remarks coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly spend around 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Exploration 71 as well as 72 staff members just before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than 20 years, folks have stayed and also worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and also creating analysis discoveries that are actually not achievable in the world. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to understand and get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase business chances in reduced Planet orbit. As industrial companies concentrate on delivering individual room transportation companies as well as locations as part of a durable reduced Earth orbit economic climate, NASA is actually focusing a lot more resources on serious room goals to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential individual purposes to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station study and also operations 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.