.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely participate in the Expedition 71 team in advancing medical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the company's site. Know how to flow NASA web content by means of a range of systems including social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the space capsule will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches will certainly open between the space capsule and the place.Once aboard, the triad will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (all times Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the firm's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening as well as appreciated remarks coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will certainly devote around six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 as well as 72 team participants just before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, individuals have actually stayed as well as worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and also making study developments that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to know as well as conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden industrial opportunities in low Planet orbit. As commercial companies pay attention to providing individual space transportation solutions and locations as aspect of a strong reduced The planet orbit economic condition, NASA is focusing extra sources on deep area goals to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future human objectives to Mars.Discover more about International Space Station investigation and also 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.