Three astronauts will launch towards the Worldwide House Station (ISS) early Tuesday morning (April 8), and you may watch the motion stay.
A Russian Soyuz rocket is scheduled to carry off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday at 1:47 a.m. EDT (0557 GMT; 10:47 a.m. native time in Kazakhstan), sending NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky to the orbiting lab.
You’ll be able to watch the launch stay right here at House.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency. Protection will start at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) on Tuesday.
The trio’s Soyuz capsule will arrive on the ISS on Tuesday at 5:03 a.m. EDT (0903 GMT), if all goes in response to plan. You’ll be able to watch the docking stay, in addition to hatch opening, which is anticipated round 7:20 a.m. EDT (1120 GMT).
Kim, Ryzhikov and Zubritsky will spend about eight months aboard the ISS, serving on the orbiting lab’s Expedition 72 and 73 missions. They’re scheduled to return again to Earth in December.
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This would be the first spaceflight for Kim and Zubritsky and the third for Ryzhikov, according to NASA.
Ryzhikov has already served two six-month stints on the ISS, dwelling aboard the orbiting lab from October 2016 to April 2017 and from October 2020 to April 2021.
