.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to sign up with the Expedition 71 staff earlier scientific research study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will lift off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection will stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the company's website. Learn how to stream NASA information through a selection of systems featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour path to the station, the space probe will immediately dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will open up in between the space probe as well as the station.As soon as aboard, the trio will definitely participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's coverage is actually as follows (perpetuity Eastern and subject to change based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the agency's web site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome comments coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the organization's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The trio will devote approximately 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 staff participants just before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For more than twenty years, folks have actually stayed and functioned constantly aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, as well as creating investigation advances that are not feasible in the world. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase office chances in low Planet orbit. As commercial companies focus on supplying human area transit companies and places as aspect of a durable low Planet orbit economy, NASA is actually centering even more resources on deep area objectives to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for potential individual missions to Mars.Find out more about International Spaceport station research study and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Sandra JonesJohnson Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.