.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly sign up with the Exploration 71 staff beforehand medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the company's website. Learn how to flow NASA information via a selection of systems consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space probe is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open up between the space capsule and also the place.Once aboard, the trio will join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and invited remarks coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely spend around 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 and 72 workers members just before returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, people have resided and functioned continually aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving technology, and also creating research discoveries that are not possible on Earth. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to recognize and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to increase commercial opportunities in reduced Planet orbit. As industrial firms concentrate on providing human room transportation companies and destinations as portion of a robust reduced Planet orbit economic climate, NASA is actually centering more sources on serious space objectives to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential human goals to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station investigation and operations 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.