.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly sign up with the Exploration 71 workers in advancing clinical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and 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.Coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the company's web site. Find out exactly how to flow NASA web content through a variety of platforms including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space capsule is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open between the spacecraft and also the place.As soon as aboard, the trio is going to participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome remarks insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will definitely invest approximately 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 staff participants prior to returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, people have actually lived as well as functioned continually aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, and also making research study advances that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to recognize as well as beat the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend business chances in low The planet orbit. As business firms pay attention to offering human area transit solutions as well as places as part of a durable low Planet track economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating extra sources on deep space purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future human objectives to Mars.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station study and also 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.