.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly participate in the Exploration 71 workers beforehand scientific study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the organization's website. Learn exactly how to stream NASA content via a wide array of systems consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches will definitely open in between the space capsule and also the place.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and also subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as appreciated statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will devote about six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 as well as 72 team participants just before returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This will be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For more than two decades, people have lived as well as operated continuously aboard the International Space Station, progressing accurate knowledge, as well as making investigation discoveries that are not feasible on Earth. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend office options in reduced Planet track. As commercial providers concentrate on supplying individual room transit services as well as places as aspect of a strong low Planet track economic situation, NASA is focusing extra information on profound room objectives to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential human goals to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station study as well as 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.