.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will sign up with the Trip 71 staff in advancing scientific study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also 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.Coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the agency's site. Learn how to stream NASA web content through an assortment of systems featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will open in between the space probe and the station.The moment aboard, the trio will certainly participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and welcome comments protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to devote roughly six months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 and also 72 workers participants just before returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For more than 20 years, individuals have stayed and operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, and also making analysis advancements that are not achievable on Earth. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to recognize and eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to extend commercial possibilities in low The planet track. As office firms pay attention to delivering individual room transit solutions and places as component of a durable reduced The planet track economic condition, NASA is actually concentrating much more information on serious room purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for future individual goals to Mars.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station analysis 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.