.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will sign up with the Exploration 71 crew ahead of time scientific analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the agency's website. Find out how to flow NASA material via an assortment of systems consisting of social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches are going to open up in between the space probe and the station.As soon as aboard, the triad is going to 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, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited comments coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will definitely spend around six months aboard the orbital lab as Expedition 71 and also 72 staff participants prior to returning to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will definitely be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have stayed and also operated consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, and making investigation advances that are certainly not feasible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand and also eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend business opportunities in reduced Earth track. As industrial firms focus on providing human room transit solutions and places as part of a strong low The planet orbit economic condition, NASA is actually centering more resources on profound room missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future individual missions to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station investigation as well as functions 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.