.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will join the Expedition 71 team ahead of time scientific investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the firm's web site. Know how to stream NASA information through a range of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space probe is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches will certainly open between the spacecraft as well as the station.As soon as aboard, the trio will certainly join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as follows (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome comments insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will devote about 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 staff participants prior to coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, folks have resided and also operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, as well as making investigation discoveries that are actually certainly not possible on Earth. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to understand and also get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to extend business chances in reduced The planet track. As industrial companies focus on delivering individual room transportation services and destinations as portion of a durable reduced Earth track economic condition, NASA is centering more sources on deep area missions to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future human objectives to Mars.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station research study and also operations 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.