.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly join the Expedition 71 crew beforehand scientific analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the agency's web site. Learn just how to stream NASA information through a variety of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space capsule is going to instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Not long after, hatches are going to open up in between the space probe as well as the place.When aboard, the triad will certainly 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, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is as complies with (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome comments coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will certainly spend around 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Trip 71 and also 72 crew members before returning to The planet in the spring of 2025. This will be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, people have resided and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, evolving accurate knowledge, as well as bring in research developments that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to know and beat the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow commercial chances in reduced The planet track. As business companies focus on giving human room transport solutions as well as destinations as portion of a sturdy reduced Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating extra sources on profound room purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future individual objectives to Mars.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station investigation as well as procedures 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.