.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly join the Trip 71 workers ahead of time clinical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the agency's web site. Learn just how to stream NASA information with an assortment of systems including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches will certainly open up between the space probe and the station.The moment aboard, the trio will sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited opinions coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad is going to invest approximately six months aboard the orbital lab as Exploration 71 and 72 crew participants prior to returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, people have resided and also functioned constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, and making analysis developments that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to understand and also get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden industrial opportunities in reduced The planet orbit. As industrial firms pay attention to providing individual space transportation companies and destinations as portion of a sturdy low The planet orbit economic situation, NASA is actually centering much more resources on serious area objectives to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Discover more regarding International Space Station investigation as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.