.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will participate in the Trip 71 workers in advancing clinical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the company's web site. Learn how to stream NASA content via a range of systems consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the spacecraft will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Soon after, hatches will open up in between the space capsule and also the place.When aboard, the trio is going to join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited comments insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad is going to spend about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 team members just before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, folks have resided as well as worked continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, and also creating study innovations that are actually certainly not achievable on Earth. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend and get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase office possibilities in low The planet orbit. As office business focus on delivering individual room transit companies and places as portion of a robust reduced Earth track economic climate, NASA is concentrating a lot more information on profound area goals to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for future human objectives to Mars.Find out more regarding International Space Station analysis and also operations 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.