.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to join the Expedition 71 staff ahead of time clinical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend 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 stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the company's website. Discover exactly how to stream NASA material via a selection of systems featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Shortly after, hatches will open in between the space probe and the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as complies with (all times Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and welcome opinions protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will definitely invest approximately six months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 team participants before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For much more than two decades, individuals have lived and also worked consistently aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, as well as bring in research study advancements that are certainly not achievable on Earth. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to understand as well as eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to expand business possibilities in reduced Earth track. As industrial companies focus on giving individual room transport solutions and places as part of a strong low Earth track economic climate, NASA is focusing more information on profound space missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future human goals to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station research 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.