Live NASA Coverage Underway of Progress Cargo Craft Launch
NASA's live launch coverage is underway on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app,?YouTube, and the agency's website. Learn how to stream NASA+ through a variety of platforms including social media.
The unpiloted Progress 89 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 11:20 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 14 (8:20 a.m. Baikonur time, Thursday, Aug. 15), on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Roscosmos spacecraft will liftoff carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station.
After a two-day in-orbit journey to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock to the aft port of the orbiting laboratory's Zvezda Service module at 1:56 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 17. NASA's coverage of rendezvous and docking will begin at 1 a.m. on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website.
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