.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly participate in the Expedition 71 crew earlier clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the firm's web site. Discover exactly how to flow NASA information with a selection of platforms featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space capsule is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will definitely open between the space probe as well as the station.As soon as aboard, the triad will join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as observes (all times Eastern and conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and appreciated opinions coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad is going to devote approximately 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 team members prior to coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, individuals have actually resided and worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating accurate knowledge, and making research study breakthroughs that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to understand and also overcome the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to expand industrial chances in low Earth orbit. As commercial providers pay attention to delivering human space transport solutions and also places as aspect of a durable low Earth track economic climate, NASA is focusing extra information on deep space goals to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for future human purposes to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station research study and 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.