.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Expedition 71 crew earlier medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the organization's site. Discover just how to flow NASA material through a variety of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will open up between the space capsule and also the station.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly 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, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as welcome comments coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will devote roughly 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Trip 71 and also 72 team members just before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, individuals have stayed and worked continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, and creating investigation discoveries that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The place is a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow business chances in reduced Earth track. As industrial companies pay attention to offering human area transit services as well as places as aspect of a sturdy low Earth orbit economy, NASA is concentrating more resources on serious space objectives to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future individual objectives to Mars.Learn more regarding International Space Station research study and also 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.