.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Trip 71 workers beforehand scientific investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the agency's web site. Find out just how to flow NASA information through a wide array of platforms featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will open in between the spacecraft and the place.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also invited comments insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will certainly invest about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 team members prior to returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, folks have stayed and also functioned regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, and also bring in investigation breakthroughs that are actually not feasible on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand commercial options in reduced Earth orbit. As commercial companies pay attention to supplying individual area transport solutions and places as part of a sturdy low Earth track economy, NASA is actually focusing extra information on serious space purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential individual goals to Mars.Learn more regarding International Space Station investigation 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.