.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly join the Expedition 71 staff earlier clinical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the firm's site. Find out how to flow NASA material by means of a variety of platforms including social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space capsule is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open in between the spacecraft and also the place.As soon as aboard, the trio will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as adheres to (all times Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also appreciated remarks insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to devote about six months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 and also 72 crew participants before going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For more than 20 years, folks have resided as well as worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, and creating investigation breakthroughs that are actually not feasible in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to expand industrial possibilities in low The planet track. As office firms pay attention to giving human space transport companies and locations as aspect of a strong reduced The planet track economy, NASA is concentrating extra resources on deep room objectives to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station analysis and 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.