.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 are going to join the Expedition 71 workers beforehand clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the firm's web site. Know just how to stream NASA web content with a variety of platforms featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the space probe is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Shortly after, hatches are going to open up in between the space probe as well as the place.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as appreciated statements coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad is going to invest around 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Trip 71 as well as 72 crew participants before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, folks have lived as well as worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, as well as bring in research advances that are actually not possible on Earth. The station is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and also conquer the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to expand industrial chances in reduced Planet track. As industrial providers pay attention to supplying individual space transport solutions and destinations as portion of a durable low Earth track economic climate, NASA is actually centering more sources on serious space objectives to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for potential human missions to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station investigation and procedures 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.