Monday, April 7, 2025

[U: 1:55 am EDT — safe in orbit!] We Will Watch The Launch Live, In The Wee Hours Tomorrow, US Time -- To The ISS, For Jonny Kim, And The Cosmonauts -- On a Soyuz Rocket...


NASA+ TV streaming promises to have the whole she-bang, come tomorrow.

See the below. And assuming Jonny Kim's time at ISS is uneventful (from a health / space fitness perspective), he is presently slated to ride the first 21st Century crewed ship to the Moon, for NASA. Here's the latest:

. . .NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft to the International Space Station, accompanied by cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, where they will join the Expedition 72/73 crew in advancing scientific research.

Kim, Ryzhikov, and Zubritsky will lift 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 automatically to the station’s Prichal module at approximately 5:03 a.m. Shortly after, hatches will open between Soyuz and the space station. . . .


Now you know -- but in truth I'll watch (the launch, at least) from my bed, on the iPhone. Heh.

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