.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they are going to participate in the Expedition 71 workers beforehand medical investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the company's internet site. Discover just how to flow NASA information through a range of systems including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the place, the spacecraft will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches are going to open up between the spacecraft as well as the station.When aboard, the triad will participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and invited opinions coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will certainly invest roughly 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 and 72 crew participants before coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, individuals have stayed and also functioned constantly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating accurate knowledge, and also making research study developments that are not possible in the world. The place is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and also beat the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to increase office opportunities in low The planet orbit. As business business pay attention to delivering individual room transit solutions and also places as part of a sturdy reduced Planet track economic condition, NASA is actually centering much more resources on deep area missions to the Moon as aspect of Artemis in preparation for future individual missions to Mars.Find out more about International Spaceport station research 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.