.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely participate in the Exploration 71 staff in advancing scientific investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to 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 will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the organization's web site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA content through a wide array of systems including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches are going to open in between the spacecraft as well as the station.The moment aboard, the trio will certainly join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as complies with (all times Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated statements protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad is going to devote approximately six months aboard the periodic lab as Trip 71 and also 72 staff participants before coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, people have resided and functioned constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also making research innovations that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to know and also conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden office possibilities in reduced Planet track. As industrial companies focus on offering individual area transport companies as well as places as component of a sturdy low Planet orbit economy, NASA is centering even more sources on deep room missions to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for future individual objectives to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station investigation as well as 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.