.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely sign up with the Exploration 71 staff earlier medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the organization's web site. Learn just how to stream NASA information by means of an assortment of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches will open up between the spacecraft and the place.The moment aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and appreciated opinions insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will spend about 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Trip 71 and 72 team participants before coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For more than 20 years, individuals have actually lived and functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also making research study breakthroughs that are not feasible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to know as well as get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow office possibilities in reduced Earth orbit. As industrial business pay attention to supplying human space transit services as well as locations as component of a robust low Planet orbit economic situation, NASA is concentrating more information on profound space missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential human objectives to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station analysis 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.