.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Expedition 71 team in advancing clinical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the organization's internet site. Discover just how to stream NASA information with a selection of platforms including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space probe will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will open in between the spacecraft as well as the place.As soon as aboard, the triad is going to join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and appreciated remarks coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad is going to invest around six months aboard the orbital lab as Exploration 71 and also 72 workers participants just before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, people have resided and worked continually aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and bring in investigation advancements that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to recognize and also conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit. As office business focus on giving human space transit companies and also destinations as portion of a sturdy reduced Planet track economy, NASA is focusing even more sources on deep area missions to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for potential human missions to Mars.Discover more about International Spaceport station research as well as operations 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.