.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch 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 Exploration 71 crew earlier medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to 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 certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the firm's site. Find out just how to flow NASA information via a variety of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the spacecraft is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will definitely open in between the spacecraft as well as the station.When aboard, the triad will join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as adheres to (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and 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, as well as the organization's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and appreciated remarks protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the organization's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly spend approximately six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Trip 71 and also 72 staff participants before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, folks have resided and operated continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also making analysis advancements that are certainly not possible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand and beat the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand business possibilities in reduced The planet track. As commercial companies concentrate on providing individual space transportation services as well as locations as portion of a durable low The planet orbit economic condition, NASA is focusing much more sources on deep room objectives to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for potential individual objectives to Mars.Find out more regarding International Space Station research study and 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.