.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will sign up with the Trip 71 staff ahead of time scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to take off 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 app, and also the firm's web site. Find out how to stream NASA web content via a variety of platforms consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open in between the spacecraft and also the station.The moment aboard, the triad will definitely join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated statements insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad is going to invest around 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 as well as 72 team participants just before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, individuals have stayed and also worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, as well as bring in analysis breakthroughs that are certainly not possible in the world. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to know as well as eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow commercial opportunities in low Planet orbit. As commercial business concentrate on delivering individual area transportation companies as well as places as component of a sturdy low The planet track economic climate, NASA is actually concentrating more information on profound room objectives to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for future human goals to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research as well as operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Sandra JonesJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.