.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will join the Expedition 71 staff ahead of time scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the organization's website. Know just how to stream NASA content by means of a variety of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open in between the space capsule and also the place.Once aboard, the triad will sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as appreciated comments coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly invest roughly six months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 workers members before going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than two decades, individuals have stayed and operated constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, and also bring in research discoveries that are actually certainly not achievable on Earth. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to recognize and also overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand industrial options in reduced Earth track. As industrial providers pay attention to delivering individual space transport companies as well as locations as component of a durable low Planet track economic condition, NASA is centering even more sources on deep space purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential human goals to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.