.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Exploration 71 workers earlier scientific analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the company's internet site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA material through a selection of systems featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open up in between the spacecraft and also the station.The moment aboard, the triad will participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as observes (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as welcome opinions protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will definitely spend around 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 and also 72 workers participants before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will definitely be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, individuals have resided and worked regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, as well as creating research study innovations that are not achievable on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend and also eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to expand commercial options in reduced Planet track. As business companies focus on providing human room transport services and places as component of a durable low Earth track economic climate, NASA is concentrating even more resources on deep room purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for potential human purposes to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station research as well as operations 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.