.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will participate in the Exploration 71 workers in advancing medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the firm's website. Discover just how to stream NASA content through a range of systems including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space probe is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will open up between the space capsule and the station.When aboard, the triad will certainly join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern and also conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as appreciated comments insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly spend roughly 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 staff participants before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than twenty years, folks have actually resided as well as worked consistently aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, and creating investigation breakthroughs that are certainly not feasible in the world. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to understand and overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden commercial possibilities in low Planet track. As business business concentrate on providing human room transit companies and destinations as part of a strong reduced The planet orbit economic condition, NASA is actually centering much more resources on deep space objectives to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential individual objectives to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station study and 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.