.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to participate in the Expedition 71 staff earlier medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the firm's website. Know just how to flow NASA web content via a variety of platforms featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches are going to open between the spacecraft and also the place.When aboard, the triad is going to sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as observes (perpetuity Eastern and also conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and invited comments coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad is going to devote approximately six months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 staff participants prior to returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For more than 20 years, individuals have actually lived as well as functioned consistently aboard the International Space Station, advancing accurate knowledge, and creating study breakthroughs that are certainly not feasible in the world. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and also conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit. As industrial companies pay attention to delivering human room transit companies as well as locations as part of a durable low Planet track economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating extra resources on deep space purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future individual objectives to Mars.Learn more about International Space Station research study and also procedures 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.