NASA astronaut Don Pettit will introduce aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will sign up with the Expedition 71 team ahead of time clinical research study.
Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Protection will stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the firm’s site. Find out how to stream NASA material through a range of platforms consisting of social networks.
After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab’s Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches will open in between the spacecraft and the station.
When aboard, the trio will sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.
NASA’s protection is as follows (perpetuity Eastern and subject to alter based upon real-time operations):
11:15 a.m.– Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s site.
12:23 p.m.– Launch
2:30 p.m.– Rendezvous and docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm’s site.
3:33 p.m.– Docking
5:30 p.m.– Hatch opening and welcome remarks protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s site.
5:50 p.m.– Hatch opening
The trio will invest roughly 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 and 72 team members before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.
For more than twenty years, individuals have actually lived and worked continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing clinical understanding, and making research study advancements that are not possible in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden business chances in low Earth orbit. As industrial business concentrate on supplying human area transport services and locations as part of a robust low Earth orbit economy, NASA is focusing more resources on deep area objectives to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for future human objectives to Mars.
Discover more about International Space Station research study and operations at:
https://www.nasa.gov/station
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