.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Trip 71 staff beforehand clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the organization's website. Know how to stream NASA web content via a selection of systems including social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Quickly after, hatches are going to open between the space capsule and also the station.As soon as aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as adheres to (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking insurance coverage begins 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 appreciated opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely spend about six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 workers members before returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, folks have stayed as well as operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, and creating analysis discoveries that are certainly not possible on Earth. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to recognize as well as beat the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to grow office chances in low Planet orbit. As business business concentrate on providing human space transit companies and locations as portion of a robust reduced Earth track economic situation, NASA is concentrating much more resources on deep area goals to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for potential human missions to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station investigation and 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.