.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will sign up with the Expedition 71 workers beforehand medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as 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.Insurance coverage will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the organization's website. Learn how to stream NASA web content with a variety of systems including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches are going to open between the space capsule as well as the station.The moment aboard, the trio will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and appreciated comments coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly invest about 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 crew participants just before coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, individuals have resided and also operated constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, and making analysis advances that are certainly not possible on Earth. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to understand as well as conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden office chances in low Planet orbit. As industrial firms pay attention to giving human room transportation services and also locations as part of a strong low Planet orbit economic situation, NASA is centering even more sources on deep space purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for potential individual objectives to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station research study and also functions 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.