.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly 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 participate in the Expedition 71 crew ahead of time medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and the organization's website. Learn how to flow NASA web content through a selection of platforms including social networking sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space capsule is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Soon after, hatches will open up in between the space capsule and the station.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as observes (all times Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also welcome comments coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to devote around six months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Expedition 71 and also 72 crew members prior to returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, people have actually stayed and operated continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and making analysis advances that are not possible on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to understand and overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden business opportunities in reduced The planet orbit. As business companies concentrate on offering individual space transit companies as well as destinations as component of a sturdy low Planet orbit economic situation, NASA is centering a lot more resources on serious room purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future individual purposes to Mars.Find out more about International Spaceport 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.