.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will participate in the Expedition 71 crew beforehand medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the company's website. Find out just how to stream NASA content through a wide array of platforms featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the spacecraft is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches are going to open in between the space probe and also the station.Once aboard, the trio will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as complies with (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and invited statements insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely spend roughly 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Trip 71 and 72 workers participants before returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, people have resided and operated continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, and also making study advances that are actually not achievable on Earth. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase business opportunities in reduced Planet track. As office companies pay attention to giving human room transport services and locations as component of a sturdy low The planet orbit economic condition, NASA is centering extra information on profound space missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future human objectives to Mars.Learn more regarding International Space Station investigation and procedures 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.