.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to sign up with the Trip 71 team beforehand clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely 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 app, and also the agency's web site. Find out how to stream NASA material by means of a variety of platforms consisting of social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the space probe is going to immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module. Not long after, hatches will open up in between the space probe and the place.Once aboard, the triad will certainly join 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 as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based on real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Release protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the company's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited comments insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio is going to invest around 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Trip 71 and also 72 team members prior to coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, folks have lived and also worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, as well as creating investigation advances that are certainly not achievable in the world. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to recognize and overcome the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow commercial chances in low Earth track. As industrial business concentrate on offering human area transportation services and also places as part of a robust reduced Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually centering a lot more resources on serious space missions to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for potential human purposes to Mars.Learn more about International Space Station research study and 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.