.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly join the Exploration 71 staff beforehand medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to lift off 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 stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the organization's website. Find out just how to flow NASA material by means of a wide array of platforms featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space probe will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches are going to open between the space probe as well as the place.When aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as appreciated remarks coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will devote roughly 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Trip 71 and also 72 team members just before coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, individuals have actually resided and operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and bring in investigation advancements that are actually not achievable on Earth. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to understand as well as get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase industrial options in low Planet track. As industrial providers concentrate on delivering individual area transit solutions and locations as aspect of a durable low The planet orbit economy, NASA is actually focusing extra resources on serious space objectives to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for potential human missions to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.