.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely join the Expedition 71 workers in advancing medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the agency's site. Discover exactly how to flow NASA web content through a range of systems consisting of social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Shortly after, hatches will definitely open up in between the space capsule and the station.The moment aboard, the trio will join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Release coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the firm's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and also docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the firm's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will certainly invest about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 crew participants prior to returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than 20 years, individuals have actually stayed and functioned continually aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, as well as bring in research study innovations that are certainly not possible on Earth. The place is a crucial testbed for NASA to know and beat the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to grow industrial options in low The planet orbit. As commercial providers focus on delivering individual area transportation services as well as destinations as portion of a sturdy reduced The planet track economic condition, NASA is centering a lot more resources on deep area goals to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future individual goals to Mars.Find out more concerning International Space Station research as well as 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.