.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will participate in the Expedition 71 team ahead of time medical research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will definitely stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the organization's internet site. Learn how to flow NASA material through a range of systems featuring social networks.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 element. Shortly after, hatches will definitely open up in between the space capsule and the place.Once aboard, the triad will join NASA rocketeers 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 Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as welcome opinions insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will certainly devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory as Exploration 71 as well as 72 crew members prior to going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than twenty years, individuals have actually stayed as well as functioned constantly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also bring in research study advances that are actually certainly not achievable on Earth. The place is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to expand industrial chances in low The planet track. As office companies concentrate on offering individual area transit services and also places as component of a sturdy low Planet track economic climate, NASA is concentrating more resources on deep area objectives to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for potential human missions to Mars.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station investigation and 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.