.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely participate in the Exploration 71 crew earlier medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the agency's web site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA web content by means of a range of platforms including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the spacecraft is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches are going to open up between the spacecraft and the place.As soon as aboard, the triad will sign up with NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the company's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and appreciated comments protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad is going to devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 as well as 72 staff participants prior to returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For more than twenty years, people have actually stayed and also operated constantly aboard the International Space Station, progressing technology, as well as making research discoveries that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The station is actually an important testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to expand office opportunities in low Planet track. As commercial business focus on offering individual room transit services and also places as part of a durable reduced Planet orbit economy, NASA is actually concentrating more information on profound space missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for potential human goals to Mars.Find out more about International Spaceport station research as well as procedures 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.