.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will join the Expedition 71 staff beforehand clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely 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 stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the firm's site. Find out exactly how to flow NASA web content by means of a wide array of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches will definitely open between the space capsule and also the station.The moment aboard, the triad will definitely participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as observes (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited remarks protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely spend about six months aboard the orbital lab as Exploration 71 and 72 staff participants just before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than two decades, folks have actually resided as well as operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, and also creating research study innovations that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and also conquer the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden business chances in low The planet orbit. As business firms concentrate on offering human area transport solutions and locations as part of a durable reduced Earth track economy, NASA is centering extra resources on profound space missions to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for potential human missions to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station investigation and also procedures 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.