.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to join the Trip 71 workers beforehand clinical research study.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 time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the company's internet site. Learn how to flow NASA content via an assortment of systems featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space probe will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches are going to open between the space probe and the station.The moment aboard, the triad will 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, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's web 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 web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly spend approximately six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 workers participants just before going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, individuals have actually resided as well as functioned consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, and bring in research study advancements that are certainly not achievable on Earth. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend commercial options in reduced Planet track. As commercial firms pay attention to offering human space transportation services and destinations as aspect of a strong low Planet orbit economic climate, NASA is actually concentrating even more information on serious room missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential human missions to Mars.Find out more about International Spaceport station research and also operations 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.