.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will join the Expedition 71 staff in advancing medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to ascend 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 flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the agency's web site. Know exactly how to flow NASA web content via a variety of platforms consisting of social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches will open up between the space probe and the station.The moment aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as follows (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking protection starts 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 also invited statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will spend around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 team participants before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For more than twenty years, individuals have actually resided and worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, and making research study advances that are certainly not feasible in the world. The station is actually an important testbed for NASA to recognize and also get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden commercial possibilities in low Planet track. As business providers concentrate on supplying human room transport solutions as well as locations as component of a strong reduced Planet orbit economic condition, NASA is centering even more resources on deep space missions to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station research and also operations 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.