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NASA Places Coverage for Crew Launch Trio to Sign Up With Expedition 71

.NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will definitely participate in the Trip 71 workers in advancing clinical research.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely take off at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11 (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Coverage will certainly stream on NASA+, the NASA app, as well as the firm's site. Know exactly how to flow NASA information through a wide array of systems featuring social networks.After a two-orbit, three-hour velocity to the station, the space capsule will automatically dock at 3:33 p.m. at the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet component. Not long after, hatches are going to open up in between the space capsule as well as the station.When aboard, the trio will definitely sign up with NASA rocketeers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, as well as Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko.NASA's insurance coverage is actually as observes (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time functions):.11:15 a.m.-- Launch coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, and the organization's website.12:23 p.m.-- Launch.2:30 p.m.-- Gathering point as well as docking coverage begins on NASA+, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's website.3:33 p.m.-- Docking.5:30 p.m.-- Hatch opening and invited comments coverage starts on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, as well as the organization's site.5:50 p.m.-- Hatch position.The trio is going to devote around 6 months aboard the orbital lab as Exploration 71 and also 72 workers participants just before returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025. This are going to be the fourth spaceflight for Pettit and Ovchinin, as well as the 2nd for Vagner.For much more than twenty years, folks have lived and also functioned constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, and also bring in study advances that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to know and also conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend industrial possibilities in low Earth orbit. As industrial business focus on supplying human area transit solutions and also destinations as part of a strong reduced The planet orbit economic condition, NASA is actually concentrating more sources on profound room missions to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for potential individual goals to Mars.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station research 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.