.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely sign up with the Trip 71 workers beforehand scientific research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the agency's site. Know exactly how to stream NASA material via a range of systems consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the spacecraft is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches will definitely open up in between the space capsule as well as the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as observes (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome remarks coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to spend about six months aboard the orbital laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 workers participants just before returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, folks have resided as well as worked consistently aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, as well as bring in study advances that are actually not possible on Earth. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to know as well as conquer the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend industrial chances in reduced Earth track. As commercial business focus on offering human area transportation companies and destinations as portion of a durable low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating much more information on profound space goals to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for potential human objectives to Mars.Discover 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.