.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will sign up with the Exploration 71 staff in advancing scientific analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly lift 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 definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the organization's internet site. Discover just how to stream NASA web content through a variety of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the space probe will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will definitely open between the space capsule and also the station.As soon as aboard, the triad is going to join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as invited opinions insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will invest about 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 staff participants before going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This will be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, folks have actually resided and also operated consistently aboard the International Space Station, progressing accurate knowledge, and also creating investigation discoveries that are actually certainly not achievable on Earth. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as beat the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to extend office options in reduced The planet orbit. As commercial companies concentrate on supplying individual room transportation solutions as well as destinations as part of a sturdy reduced The planet track economic situation, NASA is focusing a lot more information on profound space purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential human goals to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station study 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.