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11/21/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 11/21/2024 07:02

Progress Cargo Spacecraft Launching to Station Live on NASA+

A Progress spacecraft is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above a cloudy pacific ocean.

NASA's live coverage is underway on NASA+ and the agency's website. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

The unpiloted Progress 90 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 7:22 a.m. EST (5:22 p.m. Baikonur time) Thursday, Nov. 21, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Roscosmos spacecraft will liftoff carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 72 crew aboard the International Space Station.

After a two-day in-orbit journey to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock to the space-facing port of the orbiting laboratory's Poisk module at 9:36 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 23. NASA's coverage of rendezvous and docking will begin at 8:45 a.m. on NASA+ and the agency's website.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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