.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will participate in the Exploration 71 crew earlier scientific research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the organization's internet site. Know just how to stream NASA material by means of a range of systems featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches are going to open up in between the spacecraft and also the place.The moment aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited opinions protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will spend approximately 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Trip 71 and also 72 workers members before coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, individuals have actually lived and operated constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating accurate knowledge, and also making research innovations that are not feasible on Earth. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize and also beat the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to extend industrial opportunities in low Earth orbit. As business providers focus on providing human space transit companies and locations as portion of a sturdy low Planet orbit economic climate, NASA is centering much more sources on serious area purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential individual goals to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station investigation and also 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.