NASA Sets Coverage for Crew Launch; Trio to Join Expedition 71
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.
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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 sta...