.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to join the Exploration 71 crew ahead of time medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the firm's web site. Know just how to flow NASA content with a selection of platforms consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches are going to open between the space capsule and the place.When aboard, the triad will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (perpetuity Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome statements protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to devote approximately 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 and also 72 workers participants prior to returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, folks have actually lived and also operated consistently aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and bring in study advances that are actually not feasible on Earth. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to extend business opportunities in reduced Earth track. As office business focus on delivering human space transport services and locations as portion of a robust reduced The planet track economy, NASA is actually centering much more resources on deep area objectives to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential human goals to Mars.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station study and also 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.