.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Trip 71 crew beforehand medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the firm's site. Discover how to flow NASA material through a selection of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Quickly after, hatches will certainly open up in between the spacecraft and also the place.Once aboard, the triad will definitely join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as observes (all times Eastern and also conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as invited comments insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad is going to invest around 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 team participants just before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For more than twenty years, people have stayed and also worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, as well as creating investigation advancements that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit. As office business focus on delivering human room transit solutions as well as destinations as part of a durable low Planet orbit economic condition, NASA is actually concentrating more resources on profound room purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station analysis and also functions 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.