.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to participate in the Trip 71 team in advancing medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the firm's internet site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA web content through a selection of platforms including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space probe will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Shortly after, hatches will open in between the spacecraft as well as the station.Once aboard, the trio is going to join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as adheres to (all times Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome remarks insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will devote approximately 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Exploration 71 and also 72 crew members prior to returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, people have actually resided and also functioned regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, and bring in research study discoveries that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow office chances in reduced Planet orbit. As office companies focus on offering human space transport solutions as well as locations as portion of a strong low Earth orbit economic condition, NASA is focusing even more sources on profound area purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for potential human goals to Mars.Discover more concerning International Space Station analysis as well as functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Sandra JonesJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.