.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Trip 71 staff in advancing clinical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the organization's internet site. Know just how to stream NASA material with a variety of systems including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches will certainly open in between the spacecraft and the place.As soon as aboard, the trio will sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as appreciated remarks protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will devote approximately six months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 and 72 staff members before coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This are going to be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, folks have stayed and also functioned regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, and also creating study discoveries that are certainly not possible in the world. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and beat the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand office possibilities in reduced Planet track. As industrial firms concentrate on giving individual space transportation solutions and places as component of a strong low The planet orbit economy, NASA is centering much more information on serious room purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for potential individual goals to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.