.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly sign up with the Exploration 71 crew earlier medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the organization's web site. Know exactly how to flow NASA information with a range of platforms including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches will certainly open up in between the space capsule and the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as complies with (all times Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and appreciated comments protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will spend around 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 workers members before coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For more than 20 years, individuals have actually lived and worked continually aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, as well as bring in investigation breakthroughs that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as get over the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand commercial chances in low The planet orbit. As business companies focus on offering human area transit solutions as well as destinations as aspect of a strong reduced Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is centering even more resources on serious space objectives to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station study and functions 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.