.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly join the Trip 71 staff earlier medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will lift off 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 the firm's website. Discover just how to stream NASA web content via a wide array of platforms consisting of social media.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 element. Shortly after, hatches will open up in between the spacecraft and the place.The moment aboard, the triad will sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as follows (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated remarks coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 workers members just before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than two decades, individuals have lived and also worked continually aboard the International Space Station, progressing technology, and also bring in research study innovations that are not achievable in the world. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to recognize and eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand commercial opportunities in low Earth track. As office firms focus on delivering human area transit companies as well as locations as part of a robust reduced Planet track economic condition, NASA is focusing extra information on serious area goals to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for future individual purposes to Mars.Discover more about International Spaceport station investigation as well as functions 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.