.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely sign up with the Trip 71 team ahead of time medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the organization's site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA information through a wide array of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space probe is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will open in between the space capsule as well as the station.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as follows (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome remarks coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad is going to devote approximately 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Trip 71 as well as 72 workers members before going back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than two decades, individuals have actually stayed and operated consistently aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, as well as bring in research study breakthroughs that are actually certainly not possible on Earth. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to know as well as eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow industrial possibilities in reduced Planet orbit. As commercial providers pay attention to providing individual area transit companies and also destinations as portion of a strong low Planet orbit economic condition, NASA is focusing more resources on profound room purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for potential human missions to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station analysis and 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.