.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to sign up with the Exploration 71 crew beforehand medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also 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.Insurance coverage will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the company's site. Find out just how to stream NASA information by means of a selection of systems featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the spacecraft is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will certainly open in between the space capsule as well as the place.Once aboard, the trio is going to sign up with 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 as observes (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also invited statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to spend roughly six months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 as well as 72 crew members before returning to Earth 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 20 years, people have actually stayed as well as functioned continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, as well as creating research innovations that are not feasible on Earth. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend business possibilities in low The planet orbit. As commercial business pay attention to giving human room transit companies as well as locations as portion of a sturdy low Planet track economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating extra information on profound space goals to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for future individual purposes to Mars.Find out more about International Spaceport station analysis as well as operations 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.