.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to sign up with the Exploration 71 workers beforehand clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the firm's web site. Learn how to flow NASA information with a range of systems featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space capsule is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open in between the space capsule and the station.When aboard, the triad will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as observes (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also welcome statements coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad is going to spend about 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Trip 71 and also 72 team participants just before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, people have stayed and operated continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge, and bring in investigation advances that are not possible in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to know and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow business possibilities in reduced Earth orbit. As business companies concentrate on delivering individual space transit companies and also locations as portion of a robust low The planet orbit economy, NASA is actually centering extra sources on deep area missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for future individual purposes to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station research 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.