.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely participate in the Expedition 71 staff ahead of time clinical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the agency's site. Discover how to stream NASA information with an assortment of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space capsule is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches are going to open up in between the space probe and also the station.As soon as aboard, the trio will join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as observes (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited statements coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will devote about six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Trip 71 and also 72 team members before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, people have stayed and also worked regularly aboard the International Space Station, progressing technology, and bring in investigation developments that are actually certainly not possible in the world. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to know and overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow commercial options in reduced Planet track. As business business concentrate on offering human area transit services as well as locations as aspect of a durable reduced Planet orbit economic situation, NASA is centering more information on profound room missions to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for future human goals to Mars.Learn more regarding International Space Station study and also functions 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.