.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will certainly release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to join the Trip 71 workers earlier scientific study.Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to stream on NASA+, the NASA application, and the agency's site. Learn exactly how to stream NASA web content by means of an assortment of systems featuring social media sites.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the space capsule will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet component. Quickly after, hatches will certainly open up in between the spacecraft and the place.Once aboard, the triad will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as observes (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time operations):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and also invited remarks insurance coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to spend about six months aboard the orbital lab as Exploration 71 as well as 72 crew participants before coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025. This will be actually the 4th spaceflight for Pettit as well as Ovchinin, and also the 2nd for Vagner.For greater than 20 years, people have actually resided and worked continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, and creating study innovations that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and conquer the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend industrial chances in low Earth orbit. As business companies pay attention to delivering individual area transit solutions and also places as portion of a strong reduced Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is actually concentrating extra information on profound room objectives to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future individual missions to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.