.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to sign up with the Expedition 71 crew beforehand clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the firm's website. Learn exactly how to flow NASA information via a range of systems including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches are going to open up in between the space capsule and the station.Once aboard, the triad will join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as observes (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and welcome comments coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will definitely spend about 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 team members just before coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, folks have stayed as well as worked constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and also bring in research study innovations that are actually not possible on Earth. The station is actually an important testbed for NASA to understand as well as overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase commercial options in low Planet orbit. As commercial providers concentrate on providing human area transit solutions and also locations as portion of a durable reduced Planet track economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating extra sources on serious space goals to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future individual purposes to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station research and also procedures 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.