.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly sign up with the Exploration 71 staff earlier medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the firm's internet site. Know how to stream NASA material by means of a wide array of platforms featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches will open up between the space capsule as well as the station.Once aboard, the trio will sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated comments protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to invest around 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Exploration 71 as well as 72 crew members before coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have resided and also operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, progressing accurate knowledge, as well as bring in research innovations that are certainly not achievable on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to grow business opportunities in low Planet orbit. As office providers concentrate on supplying human space transportation solutions as well as places as aspect of a robust low Planet track economic climate, NASA is centering extra sources on profound area objectives to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for future individual goals to Mars.Discover more about International Spaceport station analysis 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.