.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will join the Expedition 71 workers earlier clinical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will certainly ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, as well as the agency's website. Discover just how to stream NASA information through a selection of platforms including social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space capsule will instantly dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet element. Quickly after, hatches will open in between the spacecraft and also the station.The moment aboard, the triad will certainly participate in NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's website.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point and docking coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also appreciated comments protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to invest about six months aboard the periodic laboratory as Expedition 71 and 72 staff participants before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, and also the second for Vagner.For much more than two decades, people have stayed and functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, and also making research study innovations that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to recognize and get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to expand industrial opportunities in reduced The planet orbit. As commercial business concentrate on providing human space transport solutions and also places as component of a sturdy reduced The planet orbit economic condition, NASA is centering a lot more sources on deep room objectives to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for potential individual purposes to Mars.Discover more about 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.