.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly join the Trip 71 team earlier scientific investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the organization's web site. Find out exactly how to flow NASA information through an assortment of platforms including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open up in between the space capsule as well as the place.The moment aboard, the trio will certainly participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as complies with (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome statements protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will certainly invest about 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Trip 71 as well as 72 workers members prior to going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For much more than two decades, individuals have stayed as well as functioned consistently aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, and making analysis developments that are certainly not possible in the world. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to know and also beat the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow industrial possibilities in low The planet orbit. As industrial companies pay attention to delivering human area transportation services and also places as part of a strong low The planet track economic condition, NASA is actually focusing extra sources on deep space objectives to the Moon as part of Artemis in preparation for potential human goals to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station analysis and also functions 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.