.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to join the Exploration 71 workers earlier medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will 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 certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the firm's web site. Find out just how to stream NASA web content by means of an assortment of systems consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will open up between the space capsule and also the place.The moment aboard, the trio will participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also welcome statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 crew members just before returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This are going to be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, folks have stayed as well as functioned constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving technology, as well as bring in investigation innovations that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to understand and get over the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend office chances in low Planet orbit. As commercial companies focus on providing individual area transit solutions as well as places as part of a robust low Earth track economic climate, NASA is actually focusing much more sources on serious space purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential human objectives to Mars.Learn more about International Space Station study and 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.