.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Expedition 71 crew beforehand clinical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the firm's site. Discover how to flow NASA material via a selection of systems including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will certainly open between the space probe and the station.As soon as aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated remarks insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely devote approximately six months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 as well as 72 crew participants before returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For more than 20 years, folks have actually lived and worked consistently aboard the International Space Station, progressing accurate knowledge, as well as bring in analysis developments that are not achievable in the world. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to recognize as well as get over the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend commercial options in low Earth orbit. As business companies concentrate on giving human area transport services as well as places as aspect of a robust low The planet track economic condition, NASA is centering much more resources on profound space missions to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for potential individual purposes to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station analysis and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.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.