The crewed Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is safely in orbit headed for the Worldwide Area Station following a launch at 1:47 a.m. EDT on April 8 (10:47 a.m. Baikonur time) with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard.
After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft will dock routinely to the station’s Prichal module at roughly 5:03 a.m. NASA’s reside protection of rendezvous and docking will start at 4:15 a.m. on NASA+. Discover ways to watch NASA content material via quite a lot of platforms.
The trio will spend roughly eight months aboard the orbital laboratory earlier than returning to Earth in December. That is the primary flight for Kim and Zubritsky, and the third for Ryzhikov.
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