NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of Roscosmos’ Progress 88 cargo spacecraft, which will carry approximately three tons of supplies, food and fuel for the Expedition 71 crew on the International Space Station.
The Progress 88 launch
The Progress 88 spacecraft, which carries no crew is scheduled for liftoff next Thursday, May 30 at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, using a Soyuz rocket as the backbone.
[post_relacionado]The event will be broadcast live from its launch, which will begin at 5:15 a.m. on all official NASA platforms. After a two-day orbital journey, the spacecraft will automatically dock to the space-facing port of the Poisk module at 7:47 a.m. on Saturday, June 1.
The spacecraft will remain docked to the station for nearly six months. Once the period is over, at the end of November to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and dispose of the garbage collected by the crew. The International Space Station is a focal point for science, technology and human innovation, enabling research that cannot be conducted on Earth.
For more than 23 years, NASA has maintained a continuous human presence aboard the orbital laboratory, where astronauts have learned to live and work in space. In addition, the station functions as a platform for the development of a low-Earth economy and the next major advances in NASA space exploration, including lunar missions under the Artemis program and, eventually, human exploration of Mars.
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