.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly join the Trip 71 team ahead of time clinical 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 is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the company's internet site. Find out just how to flow NASA content through a wide array of systems featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space capsule is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will certainly open up in between the spacecraft as well as the station.The moment aboard, the trio is going to join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as complies with (all times Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited remarks protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will spend approximately six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 team members prior to returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have actually lived and functioned consistently aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also creating research study breakthroughs that are not achievable in the world. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand industrial options in reduced The planet track. As business companies concentrate on offering human room transport solutions and places as component of a robust low Earth track economic condition, NASA is focusing much more sources on deep space missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential individual missions to Mars.Learn more about International Space Station study and operations 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.