.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to join the Trip 71 crew beforehand medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the company's website. Know just how to flow NASA information with a selection of platforms including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space capsule is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will definitely open up between the spacecraft and the place.Once aboard, the triad will definitely participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and also conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited statements protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 staff participants just before going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For more than twenty years, folks have actually lived and operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving technology, as well as creating research innovations that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden office possibilities in reduced Planet orbit. As office companies concentrate on giving human area transport companies and also locations as component of a strong low Planet orbit economy, NASA is actually concentrating more information on profound room missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future individual objectives to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station investigation and also operations 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.