.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Expedition 71 staff in advancing scientific study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the company's internet site. Know just how to stream NASA material through a wide array of platforms consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches are going to open between the spacecraft and the place.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely sign up with 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 Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as observes (all times Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome remarks coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly invest about six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Exploration 71 as well as 72 team participants just before going back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This are going to be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, individuals have actually stayed as well as worked regularly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and creating research innovations that are not achievable in the world. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to recognize and also overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to grow industrial opportunities in reduced Planet track. As industrial companies concentrate on providing human space transit solutions and destinations as component of a sturdy reduced The planet orbit economy, NASA is focusing a lot more resources on deep room missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis and operations 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.