.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to sign up with the Trip 71 crew earlier medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the firm's site. Find out just how to stream NASA content with a variety of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space capsule is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will open up in between the space probe as well as the place.When aboard, the triad will participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome opinions coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely devote roughly six months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 workers participants just before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than 20 years, people have actually resided and worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, and also creating analysis developments that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase business chances in low Planet track. As business companies concentrate on supplying individual area transit solutions and also destinations as component of a robust reduced Planet orbit economic situation, NASA is centering more resources on profound room goals to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential individual objectives to Mars.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station analysis as well as 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.