.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly participate in the Exploration 71 team earlier clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly lift 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 firm's web site. Learn just how to stream NASA information through an assortment of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trail to the place, the spacecraft is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will definitely open up between the space probe and the station.Once aboard, the trio is going to join NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as observes (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Introduce insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Introduce.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also welcome remarks coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the organization's web site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 team participants just before going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This will definitely be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than two decades, individuals have actually lived as well as worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, and creating study advancements that are actually not achievable in the world. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to understand as well as eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden office opportunities in low The planet track. As industrial firms concentrate on supplying human area transport companies and locations as part of a sturdy low Planet track economic condition, NASA is actually centering extra information on profound area purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential human purposes to Mars.Discover more about International Spaceport station study as well as procedures 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.