.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 are going to sign up with the Exploration 71 team beforehand scientific investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also 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.Insurance coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the organization's website. Know just how to flow NASA material through a range of systems featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches are going to open between the space probe and the station.As soon as aboard, the triad is going to join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and also conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited remarks insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will certainly spend about six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 crew participants before going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, individuals have actually lived and also operated consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, and creating analysis advances that are actually not achievable in the world. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to understand and conquer the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to expand industrial chances in low Earth orbit. As commercial companies concentrate on offering individual room transport services and locations as portion of a durable low Planet track economic climate, NASA is centering even more sources on deep space purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future human objectives to Mars.Find out more about International Space 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.