.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to join the Exploration 71 crew beforehand clinical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to take off 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 flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the organization's website. Know just how to flow NASA content via a selection of platforms featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will open up in between the space capsule and also the station.Once aboard, the trio will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as appreciated opinions protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to invest around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 team participants before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For more than 20 years, folks have actually stayed and operated continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, as well as creating investigation developments that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to know as well as beat the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand business chances in reduced Planet track. As industrial firms concentrate on offering human room transit services and locations as part of a sturdy reduced The planet track economy, NASA is actually focusing a lot more information on deep area objectives to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential individual goals to Mars.Learn more about International Space Station research 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.