A triad of astronauts and cosmonauts will certainly commemorate Thanksgiving by heading to the International Spaceport Station.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will certainly take a trip to the ISS to sign up with the Exploration 73 staff. They take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday at 4:27 a.m. ET aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft.
The International Spaceport station in reduced Planet orbit.
NASA
The launch and docking with the ISS will certainly be streamed survive on NASA+ and the room firm’s YouTube network.
The trip to the ISS will certainly take around 3 hours and 2 orbits. The Soyuz spacecraft will certainly after that immediately dock with the terminal at about 7:38 a.m. ET, complied with by the hatch opening.
The triad will certainly be signing up with NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman and Jonny Kim, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Expedition Company) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky and Oleg Platonov, that are presently functioning and living aboard the ISS.
Williams and his cosmonaut colleagues will certainly invest concerning 8 months aboard the ISS as participants of ISS Expeditions 73 and 74. This will certainly be Williams’ and Mikaev’s initial spaceflight and Kud-Sverchkov’s 2nd.
NASA states Williams will certainly be performing clinical research study and modern technology presentations throughout his time on the terminal. Several of the experiments will certainly consist of mounting and evaluating a brand-new modular exercise system for long-duration goals, boosting cryogenic gas performance and expanding semiconductor crystals precede. Williams will certainly likewise assist NASA create brand-new re-entry safety and security methods for future goals.
Nov. 2 noted the 25th anniversary of continuous human habitation aboard the ISS.
