.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will sign up with the Trip 71 staff beforehand clinical research study.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.Coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and the company's website. Find out how to flow NASA content via a variety of platforms featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the spacecraft will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will certainly open up between the space capsule as well as the station.As soon as aboard, the triad will certainly 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 Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as observes (all times Eastern and also conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and also welcome opinions insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will definitely invest roughly six months aboard the orbital lab as Trip 71 and also 72 crew participants just before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For more than twenty years, individuals have actually resided and also worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating accurate knowledge, and also creating research study advancements that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize as well as beat the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend business opportunities in low Earth orbit. As office business pay attention to giving human space transportation services as well as destinations as component of a robust reduced Planet track economy, NASA is actually focusing extra information on profound space purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential individual missions to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station investigation and functions 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.