.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely participate in the Exploration 71 staff earlier clinical investigation.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 time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the company's site. Know exactly how to stream NASA web content with a variety of systems including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches are going to open between the spacecraft as well as the place.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as follows (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited opinions coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will certainly invest approximately 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Trip 71 as well as 72 staff members before going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This will definitely be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, folks have resided and also operated continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and also bring in analysis discoveries that are actually certainly not possible on Earth. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to recognize and get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend industrial chances in reduced The planet orbit. As office firms concentrate on offering individual room transit solutions as well as places as aspect of a strong low Planet track economic condition, NASA is actually focusing extra information on deep area missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future human goals to Mars.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station analysis and also operations 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.