.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Exploration 71 workers in advancing scientific investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the agency's web site. Find out how to flow NASA web content through an assortment of systems consisting of social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the station, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet module. Quickly after, hatches are going to open between the space probe as well as the place.Once aboard, the trio will participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will invest about six months aboard the orbital laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 crew participants before going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than two decades, individuals have stayed and worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and also making investigation innovations that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to recognize and also beat the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase industrial chances in reduced The planet track. As office business pay attention to delivering human room transit solutions and destinations as component of a strong low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually focusing a lot more resources on deep area goals to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for future human objectives to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station research study as well as 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.