.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to sign up with the Trip 71 team earlier scientific investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly 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 flow on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the agency's site. Know just how to flow NASA content through a selection of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will open between the space capsule and also the station.As soon as aboard, the trio is going to participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome opinions protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly spend roughly six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 crew participants prior to going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, individuals have actually resided and operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, as well as bring in research advances that are certainly not possible on Earth. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and also beat the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase office opportunities in low Earth track. As industrial companies concentrate on offering human area transportation services as well as places as aspect of a strong reduced Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually focusing even more information on deep room objectives to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential individual missions to Mars.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.