.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely sign up with the Exploration 71 workers earlier scientific research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as 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.Insurance coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the company's site. Find out how to flow NASA information by means of a range of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space capsule is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open up between the space probe and the station.The moment aboard, the trio will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as adheres to (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as invited comments coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to spend approximately 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 and also 72 crew members before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, folks have actually resided as well as operated continually aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also creating investigation advancements that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to know and also conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase office opportunities in low The planet track. As office firms concentrate on providing human area transportation solutions as well as destinations as part of a sturdy reduced Earth orbit economic condition, NASA is concentrating even more information on serious room purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future human goals to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station research 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.