.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely participate in the Trip 71 crew in advancing scientific study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will certainly lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the company's web site. Find out just how to flow NASA web content via a selection of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space capsule is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open up in between the space probe and the station.Once aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as observes (all times Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as welcome opinions insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Trip 71 as well as 72 crew members just before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This will definitely be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, folks have actually resided as well as worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, and making investigation advancements that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is an important testbed for NASA to recognize and also conquer the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden business options in reduced Earth track. As industrial providers concentrate on providing human room transport solutions and locations as aspect of a durable low Earth track economic condition, NASA is concentrating much more sources on deep room purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future individual goals to Mars.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station research as well as operations 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.