.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will certainly participate in the Exploration 71 workers ahead of time scientific analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also 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.Insurance coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the organization's website. Learn just how to stream NASA web content by means of a range of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space probe will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open up in between the space probe and also the station.When aboard, the trio will definitely join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as appreciated remarks insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to devote around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 as well as 72 team participants prior to going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, folks have stayed and worked continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing accurate knowledge, and making research study discoveries that are actually not feasible on Earth. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to grow industrial chances in low Earth orbit. As business companies pay attention to giving individual area transport solutions and also locations as part of a robust low Earth orbit economic condition, NASA is actually centering much more sources on profound area purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future individual goals to Mars.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station study 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.