.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will participate in the Trip 71 team in advancing scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly take 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 the organization's website. Find out how to stream NASA web content through a range of platforms consisting of social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will definitely open up between the space capsule and also the place.As soon as aboard, the trio is going to join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and also conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and welcome opinions coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will spend around 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 and also 72 staff participants before going back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, individuals have resided and functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge, and bring in research advancements that are not achievable in the world. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to know and also get over the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to increase business opportunities in low Earth orbit. As office companies concentrate on offering human room transport companies and also destinations as component of a sturdy low Planet orbit economic condition, NASA is actually centering even more information on serious space purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for future individual purposes to Mars.Discover more about International Spaceport station study and also 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.