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NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station.<\/p>\n
The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baikonur time) Thursday, May 30, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n
Live launch coverage will begin at 5:15 a.m. on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app,\u00a0YouTube, and the agency\u2019s website. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms including social media.<\/p>\n After a two-day in-orbit journey to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock to the space-facing port of orbiting laboratory\u2019s Poisk module at 7:47 a.m., Saturday, June 1. NASA coverage of rendezvous and docking will begin at 7 a.m. on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency\u2019s website. 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 the development of a low Earth economy and NASA\u2019s next great leaps in exploration, including missions to the Moon under Artemis and ultimately, human exploration of Mars.<\/p>\n Learn more about the space station, its research, and crew, at:<\/p>\n \n -end-<\/p>\n Julian Coltre Sandra Jones
The spacecraft will remain docked at the station for almost six months before departing in late November for a re-entry into Earth\u2019s atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew.<\/p>\n
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Johnson Space Center, Houston
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