.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will definitely release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Expedition 71 team in advancing medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly 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 is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the company's site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA information by means of a wide array of systems consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Shortly after, hatches will certainly open up in between the space capsule and also the place.When aboard, the trio is going to join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as follows (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's website.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the company's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will definitely devote about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 workers members just before going back to Planet in the spring of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For much more than two decades, people have resided and functioned consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, and creating research study discoveries that are certainly not possible on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to recognize and conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand business chances in reduced Earth track. As business firms focus on supplying individual room transport solutions as well as destinations as portion of a durable low The planet orbit economy, NASA is focusing more sources on deep area purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future individual missions to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station analysis and also operations 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.