.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly sign up with the Exploration 71 staff ahead of time scientific 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 time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the company's site. Find out just how to flow NASA information via an assortment of platforms including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches are going to open up between the spacecraft as well as the station.When aboard, the triad is going to participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also appreciated comments protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Trip 71 and 72 crew members before going back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, individuals have lived and also operated consistently aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and making research study developments that are actually certainly not possible on Earth. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize and also get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend business opportunities in low Earth track. As industrial providers pay attention to offering individual space transportation companies and also locations as portion of a sturdy reduced The planet track economic situation, NASA is centering extra resources on serious room purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for potential individual purposes to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station research study as well as procedures 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.