.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with 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 investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the firm's website. Learn exactly how to stream NASA content with a wide array of platforms including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the spacecraft will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Quickly after, hatches will open in between the space probe as well as the station.The moment aboard, the trio is going to sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and invited comments coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Exploration 71 and 72 staff members just before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have actually stayed and worked continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, as well as making research discoveries that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is actually an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and also overcome the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to expand industrial possibilities in low Planet orbit. As business firms focus on supplying human area transport companies and destinations as aspect of a robust low Earth track economic situation, NASA is actually centering even more resources on serious room missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future human purposes to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station investigation and also 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.