.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Trip 71 team beforehand medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the company's internet site. Know just how to flow NASA content through a selection of systems consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space capsule is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will definitely open in between the spacecraft and the place.As soon as aboard, the triad is going to sign up with 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, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also welcome opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will definitely devote approximately six months aboard the periodic lab as Exploration 71 and also 72 team participants prior to coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, people have actually resided and operated constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, as well as making study advancements that are certainly not possible in the world. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to recognize and overcome the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden industrial options in reduced The planet orbit. As business providers focus on offering individual area transport solutions and places as component of a robust reduced Planet track economic situation, NASA is actually focusing even more resources on deep area objectives to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future human purposes to Mars.Learn more regarding International Space Station investigation and functions 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.