.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly join the Trip 71 team beforehand scientific study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will 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 agency's internet site. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content through a range of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space capsule is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Quickly after, hatches will certainly open between the spacecraft as well as the station.Once aboard, the trio will certainly join 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 protection is actually as follows (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome comments insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad is going to devote about 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Trip 71 and also 72 crew participants prior to returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than two decades, individuals have actually stayed as well as functioned constantly aboard the International Space Station, progressing accurate knowledge, and also bring in research innovations that are actually certainly not achievable on Earth. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to understand and overcome the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to increase industrial chances in low The planet track. As office business concentrate on delivering individual area transit solutions and destinations as component of a robust low The planet track economy, NASA is focusing extra information on profound area objectives to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for potential individual objectives to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station investigation and 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.