NASA TV to Broadcast Wednesday’s Space Station Crew Launch
The Soyuz rocket is raised into a vertical position on the launch pad, Monday, March 19, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 55 crewmembers Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel of NASA and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch at 1:44 p.m. Eastern time (11:44 p.m. Baikonur time) on March 21 and will spend the next five months living and working aboard the International Space Station.
Media Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev are ready for their journey to the International Space Station! NASA TV will begin live coverage Wednesday, March 21, at 12:45 p.m. from the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Coverage will continue on Friday, March 23, at 3:00 p.m. as the Soyuz spacecraft docks with the International Space Station.