.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely sign up with the Exploration 71 team in advancing medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will definitely take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the firm's internet site. Discover just how to flow NASA content through an assortment of systems including social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches will certainly open in between the space capsule and also the place.When aboard, the trio is going to join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and appreciated remarks coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad is going to devote roughly six months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 as well as 72 crew members just before coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For much more than 20 years, individuals have actually stayed as well as operated consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, and making research breakthroughs that are certainly not possible on Earth. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to know and overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden commercial possibilities in reduced Earth track. As office providers pay attention to providing human space transit solutions and places as portion of a strong low Planet track economic climate, NASA is concentrating extra information on serious space missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential human goals to Mars.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis and also 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.