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Three astronauts will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) early Tuesday morning (April 8), and you can watch the action live.
A Russian Soyuz rocket is scheduled to lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday at 1:47 a.m. EDT (0557 GMT; 10:47 a.m. local time in Kazakhstan), sending NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky to the orbiting lab.
You can watch the launch live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency. Coverage will begin at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) on Tuesday.
The trio’s Soyuz capsule will arrive at the ISS on Tuesday at 5:03 a.m. EDT (0903 GMT), if all goes according to plan. You can watch the docking live, as well as hatch opening, which is expected around 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 come back to Earth in December.
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This will 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, living aboard the orbiting lab from October 2016 to April 2017 and from October 2020 to April 2021.
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