.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly join the Exploration 71 team ahead of time scientific analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will lift 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 definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the agency's site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA information with a selection of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the space probe will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element. Quickly after, hatches will definitely open in between the space capsule and also the place.When aboard, the triad will definitely sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and also subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited statements insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to invest about six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 staff participants before going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For more than 20 years, people have actually lived and also functioned continually aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, as well as making investigation breakthroughs that are actually not possible on Earth. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to know and get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow office opportunities in low Planet track. As commercial providers pay attention to delivering individual room transportation solutions and also destinations as aspect of a durable low Earth track economic situation, NASA is focusing more resources on profound room goals to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station investigation as well as 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.