.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to participate in the Exploration 71 workers in advancing clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely lift off 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, as well as the company's internet site. Learn exactly how to flow NASA information through a wide array of systems consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches are going to open in between the space probe and the station.When aboard, the trio will certainly join 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 also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and also conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and invited comments protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will spend about six months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 staff participants just before returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than twenty years, individuals have actually stayed as well as operated consistently aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also creating investigation discoveries that are not achievable on Earth. The station is an important testbed for NASA to know and also beat the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow office possibilities in low Planet orbit. As industrial firms focus on offering human space transport solutions as well as locations as aspect of a durable reduced Planet track economic situation, NASA is actually focusing extra resources on serious room missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for future individual purposes to Mars.Discover more regarding International Space Station research study as well as 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.