.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit are going to release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely participate in the Exploration 71 crew beforehand medical study.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will certainly take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Insurance coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the firm's internet site. Discover exactly how to stream NASA material through a variety of platforms including social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the space capsule is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting lab's Rassvet component. Soon after, hatches will open in between the space capsule and also the place.When aboard, the triad will sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, in addition to Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch protection starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the agency's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as welcome statements protection begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the firm's internet site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch opening.The triad will spend approximately 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and also 72 staff members prior to coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This will certainly be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For more than two decades, people have stayed as well as worked regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, as well as making analysis innovations that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to understand and beat the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to expand business opportunities in low The planet track. As office business pay attention to giving human area transit solutions and places as aspect of a strong reduced Planet orbit economy, NASA is actually concentrating much more information on deep area purposes to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for future human purposes to Mars.Find out more about International Space Station study and also procedures 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.