.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly join the Trip 71 workers ahead of time scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also 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 app, and the agency's website. Know how to stream NASA content via a selection of platforms consisting of social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the space capsule will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches will open up in between the spacecraft and the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as observes (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited remarks protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will spend approximately 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 staff participants prior to going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, individuals have actually stayed and also functioned regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, as well as making analysis innovations that are not feasible on Earth. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and also eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow business options in low The planet orbit. As office business concentrate on supplying human area transit services and places as part of a strong reduced Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is centering much more resources on deep area objectives to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for potential human purposes to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station analysis 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.