.NASA astronaut Don Pettit are going to launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Spaceport Station where they will definitely participate in the Trip 71 workers ahead of time scientific investigation.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner will definitely ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly flow on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the company's internet site. Discover just how to flow NASA material via a variety of systems featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory 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 are going to open in between the spacecraft as well as the station.Once aboard, the triad will participate in NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, and also Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and also Oleg Kononenko.NASA's protection is actually as adheres to (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's site.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous and also docking insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's web site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position as well as invited remarks insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The triad will certainly devote around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory as Exploration 71 and 72 workers participants before going back to Planet in the springtime of 2025. This will be the 4th spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the second for Vagner.For more than 20 years, individuals have actually resided as well as worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, and creating study developments that are actually certainly not achievable on Earth. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and also conquer the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden office possibilities in low The planet track. As business business concentrate on providing individual space transport companies as well as destinations as portion of a strong reduced Planet track economic condition, NASA is actually focusing extra sources on profound space purposes to the Moon as part of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.