.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to sign up with the Expedition 71 workers in advancing medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also 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 will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the company's internet site. Learn how to stream NASA content by means of a wide array of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will certainly open up in between the spacecraft and also the station.Once aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as follows (all times Eastern and conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous 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 and also invited remarks coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will spend approximately six months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 and also 72 staff members just before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than twenty years, people have actually lived as well as functioned regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and also creating research study breakthroughs that are actually not possible in the world. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend and beat the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend commercial options in reduced The planet orbit. As industrial firms focus on supplying individual area transportation companies and also locations as portion of a durable reduced The planet track economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating extra resources on serious room goals to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for potential human goals to Mars.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station study 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.