.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely sign up with the Trip 71 workers ahead of time clinical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also 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.Protection will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the company's internet site. Discover how to flow NASA web content through a wide array of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open between the space probe as well as the station.The moment aboard, the trio will definitely join 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 Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as adheres to (all times Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome remarks protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 staff participants just before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than 20 years, people have actually lived and worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, and also creating research developments that are actually not possible on Earth. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize and also get over the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase industrial opportunities in low Planet orbit. As office companies concentrate on offering individual space transportation solutions as well as destinations as part of a durable reduced Planet track economic condition, NASA is actually centering much more information on deep room goals to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential human missions to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station analysis 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.