.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will participate in the Expedition 71 team ahead of time clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to 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 will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the firm's website. Discover exactly how to flow NASA material via a wide array of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will certainly open between the space probe as well as the place.When aboard, the triad is going to participate in 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, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as complies with (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and invited statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will certainly spend roughly six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Trip 71 and 72 staff participants before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, individuals have resided as well as worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and also creating analysis innovations that are actually not feasible in the world. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize as well as eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend office possibilities in low The planet orbit. As office business concentrate on supplying individual room transit solutions and also destinations as part of a robust low Planet orbit economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating even more sources on deep room purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future human objectives to Mars.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station analysis as well as 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.