.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Trip 71 staff beforehand scientific analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the organization's site. Discover just how to flow NASA web content with a selection of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space probe will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches are going to open in between the spacecraft and the station.When aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as observes (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and welcome opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly invest approximately 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 workers members before returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, folks have actually stayed and also operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and creating investigation developments that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand as well as eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase commercial chances in low Earth track. As industrial providers concentrate on offering human room transport companies and locations as part of a sturdy reduced Planet track economic climate, NASA is focusing much more resources on profound area goals to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential individual goals to Mars.Learn more regarding International Space 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.