.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Exploration 71 workers beforehand medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the firm's site. Know how to stream NASA information by means of a wide array of systems consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the spacecraft will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches will open between the space capsule as well as the station.The moment aboard, the triad is going to sign up with NASA astronauts 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, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (all times Eastern and also conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.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 invited opinions coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will invest around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 crew members just before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This are going to be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, people have stayed and functioned constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating accurate knowledge, as well as bring in study developments that are not achievable on Earth. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to know and get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to increase commercial chances in low The planet track. As business business focus on providing human area transport solutions and also destinations as part of a sturdy reduced Earth track economic situation, NASA is actually centering extra information on serious room goals to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future individual goals to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station research as well as procedures 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.