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NASA to Offer Protection of Progress 89 Launch, Space Station Docking

.NASA will certainly provide online launch as well as docking coverage of a Roscosmos freight space probe delivering nearly three lots of food, fuel, and materials to the Expedition 71 staff aboard the International Spaceport Station.The unpiloted Progress 89 spacecraft is set up to go for 11:20 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 14 (8:20 a.m. Baikonur time, Thursday, Aug. 15), on a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Reside launch protection will definitely start at 11 p.m. on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and also the company's website. Learn how to stream NASA+ via an assortment of platforms featuring social networks.After a two-day in-orbit journey to the place, the space capsule will autonomously dock to the aft port of the Zvezda company element at 1:56 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 17. NASA's protection of gathering point as well as docking will definitely start at 1 a.m., on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, YouTube, as well as the firm's website.The spacecraft will certainly remain anchored at the place for approximately 6 months just before leaving for a re-entry in to Earth's air to dispose of waste loaded due to the staff.The International Space Station is actually a convergence of science, innovation, as well as individual development that permits research certainly not possible on Earth. For much more than 23 years, NASA has assisted a constant USA human visibility aboard the orbiting laboratory, where astronauts have know to stay and also function in room for prolonged time periods. The space station is a springboard for establishing a low Earth economic climate as well as NASA's following great surges in exploration, consisting of goals to the Moon under Artemis as well as, inevitably, individual expedition of Mars.Acquire breaking headlines, graphics as well as components from the space station on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.For more details about the International Space Station, its analysis, as well as crew, see:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Jimi Russell/ Julian ColtreHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100james.j.russell@nasa.gov/ julian.n.coltre@nasa.gov.Sandra JonesJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.