NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft to the Worldwide Area Station, accompanied by cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, the place they may be a part of the Expedition 72/73 crew in advancing scientific analysis.
Kim, Ryzhikov, and Zubritsky will raise off at 1:47 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 8 (10:47 a.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft will dock routinely to the station’s Prichal module at roughly 5:03 a.m. Shortly after, hatches will open between Soyuz and the house station.
As soon as aboard, the trio will be a part of NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, and Don Pettit, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, Kirill Peskov, and Ivan Vagner.
NASA’s protection is as follows (all occasions Japanese and topic to alter primarily based on real-time operations):
Tuesday, April 8
12:45 a.m. – Launch protection begins on NASA+.
1:47 a.m. – Launch
4:15 a.m. – Rendezvous and docking protection begins on NASA+.
5:03 a.m. – Docking
7 a.m. – Hatch opening and welcome remarks protection begins on NASA+.
7:20 a.m. – Hatch opening
The trio will spend roughly eight months aboard the orbital laboratory as Expedition 72 and 73 crew members earlier than returning to Earth in December. This would be the first flight for Kim and Zubritsky, and the third for Ryzhikov.
For greater than twenty years, individuals have lived and labored repeatedly aboard the Worldwide Area Station, advancing scientific information and making analysis breakthroughs that aren’t doable on Earth. The station is a important testbed for NASA to know and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden business alternatives in low Earth orbit. As business corporations deal with offering human house transportation providers and locations as a part of a strong low Earth orbit financial system, NASA is focusing extra sources on deep house missions to the Moon as a part of the Artemis marketing campaign in preparation for future human missions to Mars.
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