.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will release aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they are going to participate in the Expedition 71 team in advancing scientific analysis.Pettit, Ovchinin, as well as Vagner is going to ascend at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur time) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Protection is going to flow on NASA+, the NASA app, and the organization's website. Learn just how to flow NASA information with a variety of systems featuring social media.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the place, the space probe is going to automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting research laboratory's Rassvet element. Quickly after, hatches will open between the space probe and also the place.The moment aboard, the trio will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is as adheres to (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch insurance coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the organization's internet site.12:23 p.m.-- Release.2:30 p.m.-- Rendezvous as well as docking protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's internet site.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch position and welcome statements protection starts on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and also the agency's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio will certainly spend around 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory as Trip 71 and also 72 team members just before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025. This are going to be actually the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, and the second for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, people have actually lived as well as worked constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, and bring in research advancements that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as overcome the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to extend industrial chances in low Planet track. As commercial companies pay attention to delivering individual space transportation solutions and locations as portion of a strong low Planet track economic situation, NASA is actually centering a lot more sources on profound space purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for future individual missions to Mars.Learn more regarding International Space Station investigation and operations 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.