.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to sign up with the Expedition 71 staff earlier medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and also the company's website. Discover just how to stream NASA content via a range of systems featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will open between the space capsule as well as the place.Once aboard, the triad is going to sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as follows (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also appreciated comments protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to invest around six months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Trip 71 as well as 72 crew participants before going back to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For greater than two decades, folks have lived and also worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, as well as creating research study advances that are certainly not possible on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to understand and also get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to extend office options in low Planet track. As office business concentrate on providing human room transport solutions as well as places as portion of a sturdy low Planet orbit economy, NASA is actually centering more sources on serious space missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future individual objectives to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station study 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.