.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely sign up with the Trip 71 workers ahead of time medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the company's website. Learn how to flow NASA web content by means of a range of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space probe will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will certainly open up between the spacecraft as well as the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will join 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 insurance coverage is actually as complies with (all times Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited statements insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will invest about 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 as well as 72 staff participants prior to coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, folks have lived and also operated consistently aboard the International Space Station, evolving accurate knowledge, and also creating research study innovations that are certainly not possible on Earth. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to grow industrial opportunities in reduced Planet orbit. As business providers focus on supplying human area transport services and places as aspect of a robust low Earth track economy, NASA is actually concentrating extra sources on deep area goals to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential individual missions to Mars.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis as well as 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.