.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Expedition 71 staff in advancing scientific analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the company's site. Discover just how to flow NASA material with a range of systems featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space capsule is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will definitely open up between the space capsule as well as the place.When aboard, the triad will definitely join 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, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated comments insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will certainly invest about six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Trip 71 and 72 staff members before returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For much more than two decades, folks have resided and also operated consistently aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and also bring in analysis breakthroughs that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to know and get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow business possibilities in low The planet track. As business providers pay attention to supplying human room transit services and also places as aspect of a strong low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually centering a lot more resources on deep area goals to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential individual purposes to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station research 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.