WASHINGTON, Aug. 12,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will provide live launch
and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft
delivering nearly three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the
Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station.
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.
Live launch coverage will begin at 11
p.m. 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.
After a two-day in-orbit journey to the station, the spacecraft
will autonomously dock to the aft port of the 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.
The spacecraft will remain docked at the station for
approximately six months before departing for a re-entry into
Earth's atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew.
The International Space Station is a convergence of science,
technology, and human innovation that enables research not possible
on Earth. For more than 23 years, NASA has supported a continuous
U.S. human presence aboard the orbiting laboratory, through which
astronauts have learned to live and work in space for extended
periods of time. The space station is a springboard for developing
a low Earth economy and NASA's next great leaps in exploration,
including missions to the Moon under Artemis and, ultimately, human
exploration of Mars.
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For more information about the International Space Station, its
research, and crew, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/station
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