.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely sign up with the Trip 71 staff ahead of time clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the company's internet site. Find out just how to stream NASA material through a wide array of systems featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space capsule is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches will open up between the space capsule and the station.As soon as aboard, the trio will join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as complies with (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as appreciated statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will definitely devote about six months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 team members just before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This will be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have stayed as well as operated continuously aboard the International Space Station, evolving accurate knowledge, as well as bring in research breakthroughs that are actually not feasible on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden business options in low Earth track. As commercial firms focus on delivering human space transport companies and destinations as part of a sturdy low Earth orbit economic climate, NASA is focusing more sources on deep room goals to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for future human objectives to Mars.Learn more about International Space Station analysis and procedures 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.