.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly join the Exploration 71 workers in advancing scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will lift off 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 application, and the firm's web site. Learn just how to stream NASA web content via a range of systems featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the spacecraft is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will certainly open up in between the space probe and also the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers 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 insurance coverage is as adheres to (all times Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome remarks protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will invest around six months aboard the orbital laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 workers participants before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, people have actually stayed as well as functioned constantly aboard the International Space Station, evolving accurate knowledge, as well as bring in investigation developments that are actually not achievable in the world. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to recognize and get over the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to grow business possibilities in reduced The planet track. As industrial business concentrate on offering individual space transit solutions as well as locations as aspect of a sturdy low Planet track economic situation, NASA is focusing even more information on profound room missions to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for potential human missions to Mars.Find out more regarding International Space Station analysis as well as procedures 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.