.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will join the Exploration 71 team in advancing medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the company's site. Know exactly how to flow NASA information through a range of systems consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will definitely open up in between the space capsule and the station.Once aboard, the triad will certainly participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as complies with (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome statements coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will certainly devote roughly six months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 staff members prior to coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, people have actually resided and worked regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, as well as creating analysis discoveries that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase business chances in low The planet track. As commercial business focus on providing human space transit services as well as destinations as component of a strong reduced The planet track economic climate, NASA is actually focusing extra information on serious area goals to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future human objectives to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station analysis and procedures 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.