.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will participate in the Expedition 71 staff in advancing clinical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the agency's website. Learn just how to stream NASA material by means of an assortment of systems including social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will open between the space probe as well as the station.The moment aboard, the triad is going to join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and welcome statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will definitely devote roughly 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Trip 71 as well as 72 staff participants before going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, people have actually stayed and also operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, as well as creating analysis developments that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as beat the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow industrial opportunities in low Planet track. As industrial firms pay attention to offering human area transit companies and locations as component of a strong low The planet track economic condition, NASA is actually focusing extra resources on profound area missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential human goals to Mars.Learn more concerning International Space Station research study and also procedures 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.