.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to sign up with the Expedition 71 team in advancing clinical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the firm's internet site. Learn how to stream NASA web content by means of a range of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space probe will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches are going to open in between the space capsule and the place.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited comments insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will devote around 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 workers participants just before coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than two decades, folks have stayed as well as operated constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, and making research advances that are certainly not feasible in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to know and beat the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to extend industrial chances in low Planet orbit. As office business concentrate on giving human area transit companies and also destinations as component of a strong low Earth track economic climate, NASA is concentrating more information on serious room purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station investigation and 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.