.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will participate in the Expedition 71 crew beforehand clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely take 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 stream on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the company's internet site. Find out just how to stream NASA material by means of an assortment of platforms including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will certainly open between the space capsule as well as the station.Once aboard, the trio is going to participate in 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, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also appreciated statements insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely invest approximately 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Trip 71 and 72 workers members just before going back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, individuals have actually lived and worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, as well as creating research developments that are not feasible in the world. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to recognize and also eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden industrial options in reduced Earth track. As industrial business concentrate on giving human area transport solutions and also locations as part of a strong low The planet orbit economic climate, NASA is actually concentrating even more sources on deep space missions to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential individual purposes to Mars.Find out more about International Space 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.