.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly join the Exploration 71 staff beforehand scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the agency's website. Learn how to stream NASA material via a selection of platforms featuring social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space capsule is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will definitely open up in between the spacecraft and also the station.When aboard, the triad will sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also invited remarks insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will spend about 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Exploration 71 and also 72 team members prior to returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, people have actually stayed and operated consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, and also bring in study breakthroughs that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase business chances in low Earth orbit. As industrial companies focus on supplying individual area transport services as well as places as aspect of a robust low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually centering more information on profound area purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for potential human purposes to Mars.Learn more concerning International Space Station investigation as well as procedures 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.