.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will sign up with the Trip 71 workers earlier clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the firm's internet site. Learn just how to stream NASA material through a wide array of platforms including social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches will open between the spacecraft and the station.When 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 cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as invited statements insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly spend roughly six months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 team members just before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, individuals have actually lived as well as functioned regularly aboard the International Space Station, progressing accurate knowledge, and making research study innovations that are certainly not achievable in the world. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to know and also get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden business options in low Earth orbit. As office business focus on supplying individual room transport services and destinations as aspect of a robust reduced The planet track economic situation, NASA is actually centering extra sources on serious room purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for potential individual missions to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station analysis and 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.