.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to join the Trip 71 staff ahead of time clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to take off 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 application, as well as the agency's website. Discover how to flow NASA content through a range of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space capsule is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches are going to open in between the space capsule and the station.The moment aboard, the triad will participate in NASA astronauts 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 coverage is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and also conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome statements coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 staff members before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than 20 years, people have actually resided as well as operated constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving technology, and also creating study advances that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize and conquer the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow business possibilities in reduced Planet track. As business providers focus on supplying human room transport services and also locations as aspect of a robust reduced The planet track economic condition, NASA is actually concentrating much more resources on serious room purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future human goals to Mars.Discover more regarding International Space Station analysis and functions 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.