Watch Russian Soyuz rocket launch 3 astronauts to the ISS today

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Watch Russian Soyuz rocket launch 3 astronauts to the ISS today


NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Soyuz MS-26 Launch – YouTube


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A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) today (Sept. 11), and you can watch the action live.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit will join Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which will lift off atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today at 12:23 p.m. EDT (1623 GMT; 9:23 p.m. local Baikonur time). The trio will join the Expedition 71 crew for a half-year mission aboard the ISS.

Today’s Soyuz MS-26 launch will stream live here at Space.com, via NASA+ (formerly NASA Television). Coverage begins at 11:15 a.m. EDT (1515 GMT). NASA will also broadcast the Soyuz’s planned 3:33 p.m. EDT (1933 GMT) docking with the ISS starting at 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), and the 5:50 p.m. EDT (2150 GMT) hatch opening between the two spacecraft, beginning at 5:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT).

The Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 crew. Left to right: NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. (Image credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center)

Each crewmember has flown to space before. This will be Pettit’s fourth launch and will add to his accumulated total of 370 days in space, according to NASA statistics. His first mission, Expedition 6, was expected to last 2.5 months in space after a launch Nov. 23, 2002 on space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-113 mission. 

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