WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — NASA will present stay protection of key occasions as a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts launch and dock to the International Space Station on Wednesday, Sept. 21.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will launch aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:54 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 21 (6:54 p.m. Baikonur time). Coverage will start at 9 a.m. on NASA Television’s Public Channel, the NASA app, and on the company’s web site.
NASA additionally will air steady protection of an Artemis I tanking check on NASA TV’s Media Channel starting at 7:15 a.m.
Soyuz MS-22 launch and key occasions as properly of protection of the Artemis I tanking check shall be accessible to watch on-line at:
After a two-orbit, three-hour journey, the Soyuz will dock to the house station’s Rassvet module at 1:11 p.m. About two hours after docking, hatches between the Soyuz and the station will open and the crew members will greet one another.
Once aboard station, the trio will be part of Expedition 67 Commander Oleg Artemyev, cosmonauts Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov of Roscosmos, in addition to NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Rubio, Prokopyev, and Petelin will spend six months aboard the orbital laboratory.
This shall be Prokopyev’s second flight into house and the primary for Rubio and Petelin.
Mission protection is as follows (all occasions Eastern):
Wednesday, Sept. 21
9 a.m. – Coverage begins on NASA TV’s Public Channel for 9:54 a.m. launch.
12:15 p.m. – Coverage begins on NASA TV’s Public Channel for 1:11 p.m. docking.
3:30 p.m. – Coverage begins on NASA TV for hatch opening and welcome remarks.
SOURCE NASA
