NASA astronaut Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by means of cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the World Area Station the place they are going to sign up for the Expedition 71 staff in advancing clinical analysis.
Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will elevate off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, 9-11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Protection will circulation on NASA+, the NASA app, and the company’s web site. Learn to circulation NASA content material via numerous platforms together with social media.
After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft will robotically dock at 3:33 p.m. on the orbiting laboratory’s Rassvet module. In a while after, hatches will open between the spacecraft and the station.
As soon as aboard, the trio will sign up for 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 (all instances Japanese and topic to switch according to real-time operations):
11:15 a.m. – Release protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s web site.
12:23 p.m. – Release
2:30 p.m. – Rendezvous and docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s web 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 web site.
5:50 p.m. – Hatch opening
The trio will spend roughly six months aboard the orbital laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 staff contributors prior to returning to Earth within the spring of 2025. This would be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the second one for Vagner.
For greater than 20 years, folks have lived and labored frequently aboard the World Area Station, advancing clinical wisdom, and making analysis breakthroughs that don’t seem to be conceivable on Earth. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to know and conquer the demanding situations of long-duration spaceflight and to increase industrial alternatives in low Earth orbit. As industrial corporations center of attention on offering human house transportation products and services and locations as a part of a powerful low Earth orbit economic system, NASA is focusing extra assets on deep house missions to the Moon as a part of Artemis in preparation for long run human missions to Mars.
Be told extra about World Area Station analysis and operations at:
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Joshua Finch / Claire O’Shea
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov / claire.a.o’shea@nasa.gov
Sandra Jones
Johnson Area Middle, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov
