.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely participate in the Exploration 71 workers ahead of time medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and 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.Coverage will stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the agency's web site. Find out how to stream NASA information through an assortment of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will definitely open in between the space capsule and the place.Once aboard, the trio is going to participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as complies with (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited opinions insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to invest about 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 as well as 72 workers participants just before going back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For more than 20 years, people have lived as well as worked constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, and creating research advancements that are not achievable in the world. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to know and eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden commercial options in low Planet track. As office providers concentrate on providing human area transport solutions and also destinations as component of a sturdy low The planet orbit economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating even more information on deep area purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future human goals to Mars.Find out more concerning International Spaceport 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.