.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly participate in the Expedition 71 crew beforehand clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the agency's internet site. Know exactly how to flow NASA web content through a wide array of platforms featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the space probe is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Quickly after, hatches will open up between the space probe as well as the place.Once aboard, the trio is going to participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as appreciated opinions insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will invest roughly six months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 and also 72 staff participants before coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, individuals have lived and also operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, and bring in study advances that are certainly not achievable on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand industrial options in low Planet track. As commercial providers focus on giving individual room transportation solutions and also places as aspect of a strong reduced The planet track economy, NASA is actually concentrating extra information on serious space goals to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for potential human missions to Mars.Find out more about 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.