.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will certainly join the Trip 71 team beforehand medical analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner is going to lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will definitely flow on NASA+, the NASA application, and also the agency's website. Find out exactly how to flow NASA material via a variety of platforms featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the place, the space capsule will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches will definitely open up in between the space probe as well as the place.The moment aboard, the trio will join NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is as follows (perpetuity Eastern as well as conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Release insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the agency's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome comments insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the periodic lab as Expedition 71 and also 72 team members just before returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and also Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, folks have actually lived and operated continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, and also creating analysis breakthroughs that are not feasible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand and get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase commercial possibilities in reduced Earth orbit. As industrial business focus on delivering individual area transportation solutions and also places as aspect of a sturdy reduced Planet orbit economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating much more sources on profound area purposes to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for potential human missions to Mars.Learn more concerning International Space 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.