.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to participate in the Expedition 71 workers in advancing clinical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the organization's site. Know just how to flow NASA content via an assortment of platforms including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches are going to open between the space capsule and the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated remarks coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly devote about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 workers participants just before going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, individuals have actually lived and also functioned consistently aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also bring in investigation innovations that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand business possibilities in low The planet orbit. As office business concentrate on offering individual space transport solutions as well as destinations as portion of a durable reduced Planet track economy, NASA is focusing extra resources on serious area goals to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future individual objectives to Mars.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station research study 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.