.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to join the Expedition 71 team beforehand clinical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to ascend 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 organization's website. Learn how to stream NASA web content through a wide array of systems consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the space capsule will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches are going to open up in between the spacecraft and the place.When aboard, the triad will definitely participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as invited remarks insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to spend around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Trip 71 and 72 staff participants prior to going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than two decades, people have actually resided as well as worked constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, as well as making study discoveries that are certainly not possible on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to know and eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow office possibilities in reduced Earth orbit. As office companies concentrate on giving individual room transit companies and places as part of a strong reduced The planet track economic condition, NASA is concentrating a lot more information on profound space missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for potential human purposes to Mars.Learn more about International Spaceport station research study and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Sandra JonesJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.