.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to participate in the Expedition 71 staff in advancing clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the firm's site. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content by means of a range of systems featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open up between the space capsule and also the place.Once aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as observes (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited remarks insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to devote around six months aboard the periodic lab as Trip 71 and also 72 staff members just before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, folks have lived as well as operated continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, as well as making analysis developments that are actually not possible in the world. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend office opportunities in low Planet orbit. As business providers focus on delivering individual room transport solutions as well as places as portion of a durable low Planet track economic condition, NASA is actually centering more information on profound space objectives to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for future individual objectives to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station investigation as well as operations 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.